Just installed the latest Mandriva release which includes KDE4.4.3 and there's an irritant I really need to disable.

I have a number of scripts which fire off kdialog --passivepopup which have a timeout set as after a period they're irrelevant. Now there's a "Recent notifications" widget that pops up as soon as my passive popup is launched and stays there in the way even after the timeout, until I manually dismiss it.

As it performs absolutely no useful function whatsoever (if I need a message to stay for a long period, I'll tell it to) and it also gets in the way of where I have other useful windows), I really need to disable it.

Looked in systemsettings and Googled, but to no avail.

Anybody know how to get rid of this, please?

The only way I know of is to replace the systray with this: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Sy ... ent=119268

Kryten2X4B wrote:The only way I know of is to replace the systray with this: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Sy ... ent=119268

Thanks for a fast reply.

It looks like it could well do the job, but either I'm being incredibly dense or there don't seem to be any instructions on how to build applets, either on the KDElook site or when I Google for them.

Any clues where I can find a HOWTO?

It might be available in a Ubuntu PPA somewhere, but since I don't use Kubuntu I wouldn't know.

But if it isn't, you need at least the packages build-essentials, kdebase4-dev, and kdelibs4-dev (or something similarly named) installed.

After they're installed, do the following:

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tar -xvf filename.tar.gz
cd new-dir
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ../
make
sudo make install
kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental


Kryten2X4B wrote:It might be available in a Ubuntu PPA somewhere, but since I don't use Kubuntu I wouldn't know.

But if it isn't, you need at least the packages build-essentials, kdebase4-dev, and kdelibs4-dev (or something similarly named) installed.

OOPS! Should have updated my profile when I dumped Ubuntu. But the same packages are right for Mandriva.

Kryten2X4B wrote:After they're installed, do the following:

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tar -xvf filename.tar.gz
cd new-dir
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ../
make
sudo make install
kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental


Fantastic. Thanks very much. Another annoyance got rid of. Quite why anybody thought this would be a good idea is completely beyond me...

You can also try Colibri if you want more passive notifications. Note that they will be completely passive (i.e. you can't click on them) and, as far as I know, it's not possible to check notifications once they've faded away.

I also hate this behaviour. Not so long ago I have posted a bug report for that https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240025 , but the fix was to limit max number of notifications for 15 - the solution is too far from being perfect for me. For example I have the whole chat history of kopete in my notification widget even though I was typing all those messages in the kopete window - I really do not need them there - I have already read them in the chat.

I think plasma notification system could take basic ideas from android notifications which have much in common in the work concept, but are implemented in a much better way.

On android notification icon appears on the top of the mobile phone screen and puts a small icon there to show the user that something is happened; there are 2 ways to get rid of this icon:
1. The user slides the top panel down and clicks on the icon (usually this opens target application, but this is the application author's choice)
2. The user opens target application and the application itself smartly removes the notification, so the user does need to slide the panel down and do it manually as in item 1.

So, for example, if you receive SMS message and envelope icon appears on the top of the screen, you can:
1. Slide the top panel down and click on the icon to open the new SMS message (notificatino will go away).
2. Open SMS application window, see the new message in the list at open it as usual (notification will go away too).