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plasma-widget-menubar package

Menubar widget causes first right-click on plasma-desktop to instantly hide

Bug #603416 reported by Jonathan Thomas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
plasma-widget-menubar
Confirmed
Medium
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plasma-widget-menubar (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-menubar

If you have a non-maximized application that is using the menubar, right clicking on the desktop will not work. When you try to do so, the context menu for plasma-desktop instantly disappears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: plasma-widget-menubar 0.1.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-7.11-generic 2.6.35-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 8 22:09:10 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: plasma-widget-menubar

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :
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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

I can replicate this on plasma-netbook too, although on plasma-netbook once focus shifts to the workspace (and the apps aren't visible anymore) then it works.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Apologies to Graham Riddell for the bug subscription. I miss clicked. Unfortunately, I can't unsubscribe you, you'll need to do it yourself.

Scott Kitterman (kitterman)
Changed in plasma-widget-menubar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Aurélien Gâteau (agateau) wrote :

I can't reproduce it here, is it still valid?

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Yup, still happening with the latest updates.

Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)
Changed in plasma-widget-menubar:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)
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Aurélien Gâteau (agateau) wrote :

I had a look at fixing that one and it's nasty: when one right-click the desktop, the desktop window gets focus, thus the menubar widget creates a desktop window menubar. To do so it creates a Plasma::ToolButton, which embeds a QToolButton. It seems creating the QToolButton causes the menu to go away, I assume that since the button is created as a standalone window (at least at construction time), it is perceived as a new toplevel window, forcing the window manager to close the popup menu.

Cédric Bellegarde (gnumdk)
Changed in plasma-widget-menubar:
assignee: Aurélien Gâteau (agateau) → Cédric Bellegarde (gnumdk)
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