Kubuntu's information popup is inconsistent with Ubuntu's one

[ill]

In Ubuntu, the notification popup that occurs in the upper right is unobtrusive, and when you mouse over it, it will dim so that you can see behind it and it will allow you to click on things that are behind it. In Kubuntu, this does not happen, and the notifications are more obtrusive. The notification does not dim, so it blocks anything behind it, and blocks mouse clicks.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

To change the source package that this bug is filed about visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1012898/+editstatus and add the package name in the text box next to the word Package.

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[papukaija (papukaija)]

Please do not self-confirm bugs. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status for more information. Thanks in advance.

[ill (illumilore)]

I can't set it to new though. The description under new says "not looked at yet". This has been looked at by "Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) " and "papukaija (papukaija)" so it doesn't fit description for new.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

The description of Confirmed states "Verified by someone other than the reporter.". I have not done this verification nor has it been done by the bug bot. The description of New is slightly misleading but a bug bot by definition is not a human check and I have not thoroughly looked at this bug. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status for more information on bug statuses. That page clearly states "Confirmed bugs require confirmation from someone other than the original reporter" and "Please don't confirm your own bugs! "Thanks in advance.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1012898

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[ill (illumilore)]

I get a window that says no additional information collected. $ apport-collect 1012898
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Package notify-osd not installed and no hook available, ignoring
apport-kde(10616)/kdecore (kdelibs) KToolInvocation::klauncher: klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
klauncher(10636)/kio (KIOConnection) KIO::ConnectionServer::listenForRemote: Listening on "local:/tmp/ksocket-ill/klauncherM10636.slave-socket"
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
klauncher(10636)/kio (KLauncher) KLauncher::processRequestReturn: "/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4" (pid 10639) up and running.
kbuildsycoca4 running...

[papukaija (papukaija)]

It seems that Kubuntu doesn't use notify-osd. Could you please try to rerun the command below? Thanks in advance.

apport-collect 1012898

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[ill (illumilore)]

The notifier is a kubuntu package, not kde.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Please be advised that Kubuntu is based on KDE. However, Kubuntu's workflow for bugs seems to differ from Ubuntu. If this was an Ubuntu package, the Ubuntu part of this bug would be set to triaged once the bug is sent to upstream but this does not appear to be the case for Kubuntu. Hence, I am reclosing this bug. Thanks.

[ill (illumilore)]

"Kubuntu's workflow for bugs seems to differ from Ubuntu."

How does that prevent this bug from being fixed?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

It doesn't prevent this bug from being fixed but it means that only the upstream part should be left open on Launchpad for bugs in Kubuntu.

[ill (illumilore)]

"only the upstream part should be left open on Launchpad for bugs in Kubuntu."

where is this upstream part?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

It is nowhere at the moment, but as the issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if you (or someone else) having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/KDE. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.