Created attachment 1135045 [details] KDE showing "Software Updates Available" notification popup Description of problem: KDE periodically shows a "Software Updates Available" popup at the top of the screen, covering the windows behind it. This can be frustrating because the popups never go away (clicking on one usually hides it, but having to click on a popup whenever one appears is annoying). Please see the attached screenshot (it's not always this extreme though). Apper is configured to "Never" check for updates. There's also a "Software Updates" tray icon which has a "Software Updates Settings" menu entry - this one does not offer "Never" as an option, so "Monthly" is selected. Even if there is another setting hidden somewhere else, this still looks like a bug because no such notification popup is supposed stay there forever. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): KDE 5.19.0 on Fedora 23. How reproducible: Not sure how often these notification popups show up, but they do and it's neither "Never" as configured in Apper, nor "Monthly" as configured in "Software Updates Settings". Steps to Reproduce: 1. Don't update the system for a while. 2. "Software Updates Available" popup will eventually show up and stay there. 3. More popups may or may not show up. Actual results: See screenshot. Expected results: 1. Any notification that suddenly shows up must go away after a short timeout. 2. If KDE's update tool is configured to "Never" check for updates, then KDE probably should not check for updates. Additional info: A while back, a popup appeared with a different message (something completed) and that didn't even go away after clicking on it (had to log out).
The missing notifications might be the workspace's fault, but then it's in plasma-workspace or plasma-desktop. The kdebase-workspace package does not exist anymore.
(I mean the notifications that don't go away, sorry.)
Can't explain why it's not going away, but: * on f22+, apper no longer provides any plasma applet, that's the job of plasma-pk-updates * if you don't want it, you can either disable the applet (or uninstall the plasma-pk-updates pkg). To disable, right click ^ in systray => system tray settings => General => Extra Items => (uncheck) Software Updates Otherwise, I looks like there is definitively something wrong with the notification applet (re-assigning there, plasma-workspace)
Created attachment 1186823 [details] Screenshot Another screenshot from a different computer (plasmashell 5.7.1). It looks very different, but those notifications also didn't go away until clicked.
That doesn't appear to be the plasma notification applet I'm accostumed to, hard to say what it is. do you have a "Notifications" applet active in your system tray? What plasma theme are you using? (hard to tell for sure, with all the redactions)
Yes, there was a "Notifications" icon and also the "Software Updates" icon. I have disabled both in the "System Tray Settings" now. System Settings - Workspace Theme: "Fedora Twenty Three"
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Created attachment 1365805 [details] KDE Software Updates Available 5x
I'm having this problem on a relatively new Fedora 27 (plasmashell 5.10.5) and I remembered this bug report. It doesn't look like this has been solved? Please see the attached screenshot (above).
It appears you do not have the plasma notifications applet active (??)
The update icon is in the tray area (its on-click popup shows list of updates and update button). It's just that you can't see it in the screenshot because it's on another monitor (on the primary one).
Created attachment 1508773 [details] KDE Update Error popups F29
This is what it looks like after upgrading to Fedora 29.
Seems there's multiple issues here. 1. No notification widget that I can tell, you probably see this for any app trying to display notifications? one test, run this: $ kdialog --passivepopup "notification test" 2. the RPMDB errors/warnings are ominous 3. Pretty sure the notifcation here isn't coming from apper, as it no longer includes any plasma updater widget.
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #15) > Seems there's multiple issues here. Yes, you're right. > 1. No notification widget that I can tell, you probably see this for any > app trying to display notifications? one test, run this: I believe I may have seen other popup notifications in the past which weren't duplicated, although I can't say for sure. > $ kdialog --passivepopup "notification test" That doesn't show anything (but it waits 10s). > 2. the RPMDB errors/warnings are ominous Yes, those started when I upgraded to Fedora 29 a couple of days ago. I have opened Bug 1653809 because I think something may be seriously wrong if a distribution upgrade damages the RPMDB. > 3. Pretty sure the notifcation here isn't coming from apper, as it no > longer includes any plasma updater widget. I just noticed that I had opened this bug report because of "Software Updates Available" popups that were being duplicated. Should I open another bug report now? On the other hand they're all (duplicated) popup notifications.
Created attachment 1508988 [details] "Software Updates Available" notification popups on F29 This just happened on the same system: A different notification popup is shown twice. And I assume more duplicates will show up if I don't click on the X whenever one shows up. By the way, that's why I'm rarely updating this bug report: When I see bugs in KDE, I may decide to report some of them. If they're annoying (new popups keep showing up every X minutes, KDE menu dead after several days uptime (Bug 1634681), user session lost after resuming/unlocking), I switch to MATE. A few months later, I'm annoyed by bugs or missing features in MATE (like wrong system date, wrong time zone, time sync not working and nothing in MATE settings that would allow me to change the time zone and/or restart time sync (system-config-date vanished), see Bug 1622299), so I switch back to KDE...
Created attachment 1576662 [details] 4x "Updates Available"
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This bug is still present, and it's annoying. Notifications for plasma-pk-updates won't hide in 5 seconds as the rest of the notifications do.
Created attachment 1711482 [details] Persistent notification popup example Here's an example of a notification that was created 1 minute ago and it's still there.
that notification is one line in the code: KNotification::event(KNotification::Notification, i18n("Software Updates Available"), i18np("You have 1 new update", "You have %1 new updates", upCount), KIconLoader::global()->loadIcon("system-software-update", KIconLoader::Desktop), 0, KNotification::Persistent); Sounds like folks would prefer if the 'KNotification::Persistent' option *not* be enabled?
Definitely.
FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a
FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff
FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository. In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2020-05bdd8a1ff has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2020-e15c59d34a has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.