Bug 299268 - Speech feedback lauch failure is annoying
Summary: Speech feedback lauch failure is annoying
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: kdeinit (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2012-05-03 02:16 UTC by happy
Modified: 2023-02-01 05:04 UTC (History)
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Description happy 2012-05-03 02:16:29 UTC
When configured to announce via speech that a connection has failed and the speech infrastructure is not installed, an annoying bunch of notifier dialogs gets created.
The dialog is titled "Could not find service 'kttsd'. Knotifier" body text "Starting Jovie Text-to-Speech Service Failed"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Default install (no 'Assitance' module)
2. Kill a network connection (ie: kill power to local ethernet switch)

Actual Results:  
Dialog box appears when speech service could not be started.

Expected Results:  
Better action might be to fall back to another notification style (perhaps a pop-up).
Additionally, settings panel should disable speech feedback selection if infrastructure not installed (at least one of the other settings panels does that - can't remember which - but there seems to be a way of testing for it's availability)

I'm not sure if the speech feedback is the default? I can't remember selecting it in:
 {Network Management Settings | Other | Configure Notifications -> Network Connection Failed}

The default install of Kubuntu that I used did _not_ install the Assistance packages (ie: include kttsd)

I had noticed this dialog box occasionally before (every now and again) but could not pin it to a particular application trying to launch speech feedback.  Then the power supply for my ethernet switch failed and it began rebooting every five minutes -> 116 dialog boxes in eleven hours (of course, while I was sleeping near the computer)... at this point I decided to install kttsd and listen to the result which pinned the cause down to the network management.

Simple workaround is to install kttsd or Assistance packages.

Ubuntu 12.04 (ish) 
NM version 0.9.0.1 (nm09 20120407)
Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-05-03 09:13:31 UTC
Plasma NM just uses the notification system, we do not deal with which backend is used to notify the user.
Comment 2 Jeremy Whiting 2013-03-12 02:01:21 UTC
Looked into this and the problem is that kdeinit/klauncher.cpp should keep track of dialogs it shows when services can't be found and only display one for each error.
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-10 03:17:01 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-20 04:11:00 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 happy 2018-11-20 04:29:42 UTC
(In reply to Andrew Crouthamel from comment #4)
> This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could
> you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

can't reproduce it as of Kubuntu 18.10 - Jovie is gone and I'm not even sure which services replaced it.
Comment 6 Justin Zobel 2023-01-02 07:43:39 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue 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 issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-17 05:14:49 UTC
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.

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Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2023-02-01 05:04:27 UTC
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:
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Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!