Bug 290616

Summary:	Notifications do not pop up if notification widget is hidden
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Component:	widget-misc	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, illumilore, n.schnelle, redfox.aqra, wengxt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-01-04 18:37:40 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

In KDE 4.8 the notification widget hides itself by default if there are no notification in its history.
However, if it is hidden, and a new notification is triggered, the icon appears and glows and indicates there is something but the notification does not pop up. They only pop up if the icon is already visible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure the widget’s hide policy is set to Auto
2. Clear your notification history
3. Open krunner and type “kdialog --passivepopup "test"”

Actual Results:  
The info icon appears and glows.

Expected Results:  
The info icon appears and glows and the notification is shown.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-03-07 23:51:49 UTC

I failed to reproduce this using recent development version

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-03-08 13:11:28 UTC

I just tested it on latest master. The (i) thing appears and animates but the notification does not pop up automatically.

Comment 3 Nikola Schnelle 2012-03-17 10:08:47 UTC

I can reproduce this bug on KDE 4.8.1 but cannot reproduce it on latest KDE from project neon ppa.

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-08-03 15:13:10 UTC

Fixed on 4.9.0. Notifications appear properly now.

Comment 5 Martin Koller 2012-08-04 23:32:33 UTC

*** Bug 296585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Weng Xuetian 2012-09-07 00:13:28 UTC

Sorry.. but I seems still have this problem in KDE 4.9.1.

The behaviour is exactly same as describe in #1. (clear history, and do a notification).

Comment 7 Nikola Schnelle 2012-09-08 17:15:17 UTC

@Weng Xuetian 

Try with new user. With my current user I have this issue in KDE 4.8 (after upgrading from 4.7) but with new user and clean configs I cannot reproduce it.

Comment 8 Weng Xuetian 2012-09-08 17:56:03 UTC

Yeah.. I remove plasma*rc.. and seems resolve the problem..

I carelessly did not backup the problematic file...

Comment 9 RedFox 2012-12-28 00:25:02 UTC

Weng, could you share in more details what you did to resolve your issue? I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 using KDE 4.9.3 and I have the same problem. 

I can reproduce the steps in the original bug report.

If I force the notification to "always visible", the message pops up.

If it's set to auto, there is no pop-up if the notification icon is hidden. It simply shows up and flashes, but no pop-up.