Bug#589892: kwrited: fail to show complete shutdown message
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>
> Package: kdebase-workspace-bin
> Version: 4:4.4.4-1
>
> When running shutdown to take down the machine, the broadcasted
> message is gathered by something and pushed out as a KDE notification.
> The problem is that the message shown in the notification window is
> only part of the message show. The complete message in the
> notification window after running "shutdown -h +5" is
>
> "Broadcast message from root@tjener.intern (pts/2) (Thy Jul"
>
> In the terminal where I started shutdown, this message is shown:
>
> The system is going DOWN for system halt in 5 minutes! Jul 22
> 01:09:18 2010):
>
> It would be more useful for the user if the full message from shutdown
> was shown in the notification.
>
> To test this, run shutdown with a delay (like +5 for 5 minutes) to see
> the notification.
>
> I tested using wall to see if all the text is shown there, and then
> the notification window is a bit too small when I do like this as
> root:
>
> (echo foo; echo bar; echo; echo baz) | wall
>
> Only a fraction of the 'baz' part is shown in the notification window.
> It would be better if the notification window was created a bit
> larger.
>
> Happy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
This is a known plasma bug. It works fine with the old (kde 4.0)
knotify popups and with gnome's notification-daemon. Unfortunately I
cannot find the upstream bug number right now, but I am certain that
it has been reported upstream. Rumor has it that the plasma
notification system has been polished in 4.5 and that such layout bugs
have been fixed... I will check it with 4.5 when it has been packaged.
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