Bug 321302

Summary:	Leave A Note widget: text position is variable, overlapping, erratic
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	kdebugs
Component:	widget-notes	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	myriam, private_lock
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.10.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Overlapping text at top left Incorrectly positioned text at top left Normal correct text positions

Description kdebugs 2013-06-18 01:42:38 UTC

(Not sure exactly if the "Leave a note" widget is part of knotes, but they seem related.)
Observed on KDE 4.10.2.
Text position jumps around when resizing and doesn't always settle in a readable state.
On this distribution, the default size when adding the widget leaves the text overlapping/unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Desktop, right-click, Add Widget "Leave A Note".
2. Notice current positioning of text "Leave me a note:" and "0 unread messages".
3. Click on and drag resize handle.  Watch as the "0 unread messages" text jumps from its normal position below the "Leave Note" button to above the "Leave me a note:" text.  Notice how occasionally the "Leave me a note:" text also is not properly moved down, leaving both messages overlapping each other at the top left of the widget.

Comment 1 kdebugs 2013-06-18 01:44:15 UTC

Created attachment 80595 [details]
Overlapping text at top left

Comment 2 kdebugs 2013-06-18 01:46:07 UTC

Created attachment 80596 [details]
Incorrectly positioned text at top left

Comment 3 kdebugs 2013-06-18 01:46:52 UTC

Created attachment 80597 [details]
Normal correct text positions

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2013-06-18 06:16:42 UTC

Could you please upgrade to KDE 4.10.4 and try again? There have been 2 bugfix releases since 4.10.2

Comment 5 kdebugs 2013-06-20 07:55:03 UTC

Tried on 4.10.3 (raring), then added ppa and upgraded to 4.10.4.  Same problems reproduce on these versions.

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2013-06-28 12:51:14 UTC

Thanks for the update.

Comment 7 Holger 2014-05-29 10:43:42 UTC

By the way ... how can you resize the "leave me a note" thingy?

I placed it on my screensaver. But none of the apps there has the popup bar that I know from the desktop. Instead I can drag them by clicking in the window, but not resize?!?

Moreover I tried to tweak the numbers in .kde/share/config/plasma-overlay-appletsrc it will move around the screen, but I cannot get it to resize. It just snaps back after I return from the screensaver and overrides my changes.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:52:20 UTC

Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham