| Summary: | Kontact: integrated aggregator functions for notification largely broken and / or non logic - redundant | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kontact | Reporter: | stakanov.s |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | crash | Keywords: | drkonqi |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.10.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
stakanov.s
2020-01-18 11:51:49 UTC
I went now through all of this and found that the whole function of notification of aggregator appears quite broken. When told to show the icon in the tray, the icon is shown, nevertheless, new articles are shown either in the task bar when the application is open (therefore causing a total confusion with existing mail) however the very icon in the task bar has no function. a) it does not show any unread article. b) it does not even open the aggregator instance of Kontakt when Kontakt is running. Instead it opens the mail(!) view, which is then, to make the confusion perfect, obviously empty, as the articles are shown as mail in the task bar. Now, first point: either the "tray icon" of aggregator has a function and shall stay. Or it should be selectable only if aggregator is standalone. Otherwise it is a burden without function, cluttering the tray. Task bar function: Kontact should show, if selected in the aggregator notification settings, new messages when they arrive. Instead it counts new articles on aggregator, with a kind of hierarchy. Thus, there is mail: so only(!) the number of email is shown. Not the number of articles. But then, when mail is read, then the articles are shown. I am not aware of any logical way to distinguish whether you have new mail or new unread articles. So no logic: either articles and mail are equivalent for Kontakt, then the sum should be cumulatively shown in the task bar (and you need only one tray icon for Kontakt). Or: you consider this two distinct events. Then the task bar icon for articles, should be different from the icon for mail, and appear both, if both are present. And then you do not need a aggregator "tray" icon. Or, the messages are shown and counted only in the task bar when this is mail, then you need a counting tray icon of aggregator in the tray. Pop up notification of new articles: is broken and any change in the setting causes for the whole session a crash when restarting Kontakt, after having exited the application. (This gave origin to this bug report). So substantially: the aggregator popup-notification broken and without function, taskbar notification of aggregator messed up and not logic, and tray icons are without recognizable function. So i would say the notification system for the system "Kontakt-Aggregator" was lost in porting aggregator from Plasma 4 to 5 and would definitely need some love. If instead you are sure, that this is only an opensuse (Leap 15.1) problem, please do notify me about it, I will then raise this bug within the distribution bugzilla to make sure it does not get inherited endlessly. P.S I changed the title of the bug accordingly One issue → One bug. Have a look at https://bugs.kde.org/174977 for the tray icon behaviour Thank you for reporting this crash in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the crash with a recent software version? If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "CONFIRMED" when replying. Thank you! Given the quality of the software, I am not using anymore the aggregator component, with the undeniable benefit of having less thing that annoy. You may consider stop shipping unmaintained or outdated software components. This bug was actually reported nearly three years ago and had no attention ever since. You may therefore imagine what this does to the willingness to report all but showstopper bugs. But maybe that is your intention. Kind regards. One issue one bug. Uninstall the component without reporting = no issues. ;-) In absence of other user encountering the problem feel free to close. Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! |