Bug 361624

Summary: notifications exceed screen, hiding close button, so that they can not be closed manually
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Cyril Brosch <info>
Component: NotificationsAssignee: Martin Klapetek <mklapetek>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: notmart, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.6.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Chakra   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: example of a notification exceeding screen edges

Description Cyril Brosch 2016-04-11 10:12:04 UTC
As it should do, kdeconnect notifies me of new e-mail my Android gmail app receives.
But as it cites the whole message text, the notifications can get very long, and in fact they sometimes are longer than there is vertical space on my screen. I attach a screen shot.
In such case the close button is somewhere above my screen and not reachable. I can't close the notifcation (clicking them once closed them, but this behavior was recently changed) and I have to wait until it dissapears from itself.

Of course I could file a bug report against kdeconnect (crop you notifcations!), but I think the right place for this to be fixed is Plasma, as it may concern also other applications.

So, please make sure that notifications never grows higher than the screen is high or give another possibility to close them, e.g. via right-click option.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Cyril Brosch 2016-04-11 10:13:19 UTC
Created attachment 98336 [details]
example of a notification exceeding screen edges
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2016-04-13 09:33:21 UTC
may be a good idea to make the TextEdit have a maximum height and clip the text in those cases? (even if it will look bad, but at least would be usable)
being the body potentially html isprobably not safe to just cut the string
Comment 3 Marco Martin 2016-04-13 11:12:54 UTC
related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361389
Comment 4 Cyril Brosch 2016-04-13 11:15:36 UTC
Arrg, sorry for the duplicate, I didn't find #361389 although I searched for "notification"?!
Comment 5 Cyril Brosch 2016-04-13 11:16:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 361389 ***