One Hundred Papercuts

Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt5 apps

Bug #1436405 reported by Egmont Koblinger on 2015-03-25

This bug affects 13 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
One Hundred Papercuts	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned
appmenu-qt5 (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned
qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

At least konsole and khelpcenter suffers from this bug:

Start the app inside the default Unity environment (not under KDE). Notice that the app's menubar appears twice. Once in the upper row of the whole desktop, as expected and as it is for every Gnome app. And also inside the application's window, wasting precious screen real estate.

In Utopic, at least for konsole, I'm quite sure that the menu wasn't duplicated inside the app, it only appeared on the desktop's top Unity bar.

(I'm not sure I guessed the component right; please reassign as appropriate.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: libdbusmenu-qt5 0.9.3+14.10.20140619-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-10.10-generic 3.19.2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 25 16:33:14 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (1028 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: libdbusmenu-qt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-03-17 (7 days ago)

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Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote on 2015-03-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (170 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (135 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2015-05-06

Changed in libdbusmenu-qt (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-05-07

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-05-07

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in libdbusmenu-qt (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote on 2015-05-07:

do you have appmenu-qt5 installed? it creates some issues when used outside of unity, but if you're using only unity i think it fixes this issue.

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Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote on 2015-05-07:

I do have appmenu-qt5 installed. If I remove the package, the menu inside konsole's window remains, and the one in Unity's top bar vanishes. Clearly not the direction in which I'd expect the duplicate menu issue to be resolved.

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) on 2015-07-30

summary:

- Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for kde apps
+ Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt apps

sanket (sanketjn210) on 2015-10-06

Changed in libdbusmenu-qt (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → sanket (sanketjn210)

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Wladimir J. van der Laan (laanwj) wrote on 2015-11-03: Re: Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt apps

I have the same issue on Ubuntu Wily, with quasselclient, a Qt5 application.

The menu shows both in the global app menu and at the top of the window.

When I start using "UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 quasselclient", the menu will only show in the window but not the global menu area.

However I'd prefer the opposite, only the global menu showing.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-11-03:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in appmenu-qt5 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-11-17

Changed in appmenu-qt5 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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sanket (sanketjn210) wrote on 2015-11-18:

smime.p7s Edit (6.3 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2015-11-18:

The attachment "smime.p7s" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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Turbid (turbidit) wrote on 2016-05-24:

I confirm this bug at Ubuntu 16.04 and kdenlive app.

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Gabriel Ionescu (justoneslave) wrote on 2016-07-13:

#10

So far I found this bug in the following applications:

Kdenlive
Krita3
Smplayer (qt5 version) after coming back from fullscreen
Digikam (luckily Digikam has an option to hide the menubar)

Gabriel Ionescu (justoneslave) on 2016-07-13

summary:

- Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt apps
+ Duplicate menu (both unity and in-app) for Qt5 apps

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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote on 2016-07-14:

#11

VirtualBox is affected by this. When I comment out calls to menuBar()->setVisible() in the VirtualBox source the duplicate menu bar goes away.

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Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind) wrote on 2016-07-15:

#12

I believe the issue may lie with Qt. QMenuBar only supports "native" menu bars in OSX & windows CE as stated in http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmenubar.html#nativeMenuBar-prop

This causes calls to QMenuBar::setVisible to fall through to QWidget::setVisible which then sets the menu bar visual component of the app window to visible.

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Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind) wrote on 2016-07-15:

#13

I've logged a bug with Qt.
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54793

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote on 2016-09-08:

#14

https://codereview.qt-project.org/170467

affects:	libdbusmenu-qt (Ubuntu) → qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu)
Changed in qtbase-opensource-src (Ubuntu):
assignee:	sanket (sanketjn210) → nobody