Fixing Notifications Plasmoid

[Alex Fiestas]

On 01/06/2011 02:52 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote:
>> http://pastebin.com/J0Szcgkz
>
> unfortunate; that guy could be quite a useful tester providing feedback, but i
> don't think i could put up with his idiotic attitude for very long.

Well, He was a little bit upset when he wrote that comment, just let's 
forget that part  :p

> anyways, here's a summary of the issue:
>
> * after closing notifications of one type (e.g.
> http://box.jisko.net/i/2926ce.png) the notifier closes automatically, but when
> notifications from another application appear and it re-opens the now-empty
> page of those notifications are still shown: http://box.jisko.net/i/2926ce.png
>
> * when in that state, notifications from other sources will appear in the
> empty tab: http://box.jisko.net/i/d71f94.png ... probably these two issues are
> related
>
> * margins and scrollbar height can become incorrect while the notifications
> window is open and notifications are coming are going:
> http://box.jisko.net/i/b5c809.png
>
> * changing tabs while there is kinetic over-scroll position resets the scroll
> and it doesn't "bounce back": http://box.jisko.net/i/f4356b.png
>
> that describes every single issue he ran into afaics, not counting things like
> "the buttons are different widgths in different notifications" (no shit: the
> text layout is different in different notifications!)
>
>> I can take a look to them but I think that we need some hardcore Plasma
>> muscle to get them fixed for 4.6.0, anyone up for the job?
>
> other than the margins and scrollbar height which may be tricky (as in: they
> may be QGraphicsLayout annoyances), the other three shouldn't be too hard.
> they are obviously all results of edge conditions somewhere that aren't being
> caught with regards to managing the list of pages in the tab widget.
>
> i'm willing to help out, Marco is usually around as well.
Awesome, thanks! I will try to help too, at least by testing everything 
90 times and providing feedback.