Comments on: More KDE4 rants

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:38:37 +0000

It is notification-deamon. At least the notifications of GNOME 2.28 and KDE SC 4.4 are compatible with each other, it seems.

By: seife

seife — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:29:15 +0000

It does not work for me with 4.3.85. sometimes I see something that looks like a notification window poping up in the middle of my panel at the top of the screen, but it disappears a milisecond later. Might be something in my settings, but I am not keen to remove my ~/.kde and start from scratch, so we’ll probably never know exactly why it works for you and does not for me.

Anyway, your screenshot looks pretty similar to the notifications of the gnome notification-daemon, only that g-n-d has the notifications in the corner of the screen, so running that is a good solution.

(I tried the XFCE4 notifyd, but that’s like the notifications in KDE4.0 that opened all at the same place etc, so it is really not an improvement ;))

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:16:33 +0000

I don’t know what you do, but when I disable Plasma notifications, it looks like this: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4663/powerz.png
This is under 4.4, I might add.

By: seife

seife — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:00:50 +0000

Colibri looks promising, but click-through is also a usability nightmare IMHO.

But I found out, that the gnome notification-daemon works just fine in KDE4 once you disable plasma notifications, so that’s actually a usable solution.

By: egal

egal — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:23:01 +0000

Maybe have a look at Colibri:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Colibri?content=117147

By: seife

seife — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:56:04 +0000

well, I did:
* right click on the (i) icon
=> System Tray Settings
===> Pop Up Notices
[ ] Application notifications
[ ] File transfers and other jobs
both unchecked. After that I did not get any noticable notifications when e.g. unplugging the AC adapter or similar. Maybe I misunderstood you, and I need to set something else?

What I did get is a milisecond long popup in the middle of one of my panels that did vanish immediately. Maybe the knotify notifications are drawn on the root window?

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:29:51 +0000

You should check the facts before posting: I did not wrote that it’ll turn off notifications entirely. I wrote that you can turn off Plasma notifications. If turned off, old-school knotify takes back the duty.

By: m_goku

m_goku — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:18:46 +0000

I agree with you, KDE notification look very ugly. It’s pretty useful for me thought…

By: seife

seife — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:24:26 +0000

So right now I can choose between intrusive notifications and no notifications at all. Not a good solution IMHO. But I will look into the notification-daemon solution.

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:32:17 +0000

You can disable the Plasma notifications. It’s in the systray config window.
AFAIK GNOME will adopt the new specs developed by KDE for notifications. Hence it should be possible to use GNOME’s notification deamon under Plasma.