Documents Modified on Disk doesn't appear with desktop switching

Bug #1062296 reported by Andy Allan
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Bug Description

If you have a document open in Kate, and edit that document using a third-party application on another virtual desktop, the "Documents Modified on Disk" dialog cannot be found. I think the dialog is being created somewhere far off-screen.

# Steps to reproduce

1) Create a text file, e.g. touch foo.txt
2) Launch Kate and open the file
3) Switch to another virtual desktop and edit the file with another program and change the contents, e.g. nano foo.txt, and save the file
4) Switch back to the virtual desktop with Kate, and focus on it if necessary
5) Observe that the document has a red warning icon to indicate that it has been changed
6) Observe the lack of a visible dialog. Kate also appears to be unresponsive to keyboard or mouse input, but in reality the missing dialog has focus.
7) Press 'enter' to reload the document (that's the default selection on the missing dialog

# What is expected

When you save the file with the other program, the dialog should appear

# Notes

This is only a problem when Kate is on a different virtual desktop when the file is changed. If you use a terminal window on the same virtual desktop, all is well.

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
kate:
  Installed: 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.1

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