Passive dialog is not passive

[steehle]

Binary package hint: mail-notification

I'm using mail-notification (5.4.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1) under karmic with notify-osd (0.9.24-0ubuntu1), and I have a gmail account configured. If I choose to show test messages in the preferences dialog they will be shown nicely as passive dialogs like they should. But if I receive a real email mail-notification will show a regular active dialog, with three buttons (OK, Cancel and Open) in the middle of the screen, interrupting whatever I was doing at the time. This is a really strange, and inconsistent, behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 20 20:56:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mail-notification 5.4.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: mail-notification
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1977): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1977): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2131): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2118): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2117): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Christian Ide (cide)]

This seems to be a new behaviour since the last update. I saw this dialog for the first time today.

[steehle (steehle)]

I beg to differ. I have seen this behaviour before, but it has not been visible for a great deal of time, since notify-osd have been crashing whenever that dialog was to pop up. Since the latest bug fix in notify-osd this behaviour is visible again.

[arr (alan-drop-share)]

Ugly workaround:
In a terminal, type:
gconftool --set "/apps/mail-notification/popups/actions" --type list --list-type string []

This will remove any action button that generates a passive dialog.

[Dan Lea (danlea)]

With two mail accounts configured - one gmail and one IMAP - only the gmail causes this problem. Should this not therefore be a simple fix?

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 456593 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mail-notification (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]