Review Request 110122: Patch to handle notifications with low timeouts masking earlier important notifications.

James Pike kdebugs at chilon.net
Thu Apr 25 14:11:40 UTC 2013



> On April 25, 2013, 2:02 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > plasma/generic/applets/notifications/contents/ui/LastNotificationPopup.qml, line 188
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110122/diff/1/?file=140373#file140373line188>
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> >     this tends to lead to accidental timers running when the code changes later (QML makes it a little too easy to accomplish that at times ;)
> >     
> >     would prefer that this stays as a single shot and is restarted as needed.

Yes I totally agree with you, unfortunately due to a limitation of the timer class, when used from QML, this is not possible (you can't "re-arm" the timer from inside of a timer callback).


- James


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On April 25, 2013, 1:58 p.m., James Pike wrote:
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> (Updated April 25, 2013, 1:58 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Description
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> Currently the timeout of the last notification to arrive is used as a basis for hiding the notification display. This means that a notification with a high timeout can get hidden by a new notification arriving with a much lower timeout.
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> This patch simply changes the behaviour to, when expiring a timer, go back through the stack and display the most recent unexpired timer. If all timers are expired the notification is closed as before.
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> This addresses bug 318295.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318295
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/generic/applets/notifications/contents/ui/LastNotificationPopup.qml 2fa1b11 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110122/diff/
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> Testing
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> Test script in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318295
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> Thanks,
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> James Pike
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