Version: unknown (using 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4), Arch Linux) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-ARCH This was one of those "duh" moments. I decided to delete a directory with 40G of files in it before I was finished with it. Notification comes up in taskbar. While the computer was creating a list to delete, I am frantically clicking the stop button (more than five times). Nothing happens and computers continues to start deleting the files. I killed the power to the computer and saved half the files. In short, what use is a stop button if it does not stop the process IMMEDIATELY? In a shell if I press CTRL-C the process stops. In Midnight Commander if I click abort the process stops. This is even more aggravating since the time I notice was when the computer was compiling the list of files to delete.
Further testing... In both tests I position the delete file confirmation dialog in the lower right corner of the screen about 1 cm above where the plasma notication is displayed. Thus I there is less than 1 cm distance to re-position the pointer. And this time no reason to panic. :) Test 1: 8.9G files, 551 files. 1) Right click parent directory 2) Selected delete from the popup menu 3) Click delete on the plasma notication 3 times, pausing approx 1/2 sec inbetween. 4) Notification disappears 5) Click "I" icon to bring notifcation forward 6) Repeat step 3 7) Pause approx 1 sec 8) Click pause on plasma noticfication 9) Pause approx 1 sec 10 Repeat step 3 11) Repeat step 3 Test 2: 8.9G, 221 files 1) Select all files 2) Right click to get submenu 3) Select delete Same steps as above Results: Neither the delete button or the pause buttons work. For comparison when I did this with copy, the process both stopped and paused. Addtional recommendation: During this test, while pressing delete on the notification, it disappeared. I can infer that if the user has the pointer over a notification the user is doing *something* with it, therefore keep the notification displayed. Only it is when the user moves the pointer outside notification should it disappear.
related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199881 ?
Works for me using KDE SC 4.3.4 and Qt 4.5.3. I was able to stop and abort.
please reopen if this is still an issue for the original reporter. thank you