Bug 1958778

Summary: KDE Plasma Wayland - clicking on taskbar to bring windows to the front doesn't work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Uri Simchoni <urisimchoni>
Component: plasma-desktopAssignee: KDE SIG <kde-sig>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 34CC: hygorhernane, jgrulich, kde-sig, marcdeop, me, rdieter, than
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Description Uri Simchoni 2021-05-10 06:53:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
When two windows of the same program are open, and a third window of a different program hides them, clicking on the taskbar to bring one of the windows to the front does not work. When using X instead of Wayland, everything works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.18-300.fc34.x86_64

How reproducible:
Reproduces all the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch two windows of google chrome
2. Launch one window of Konsole (at this point the Konsole window covers the chrome windows)
3. Click on the taskbar on the Chrome icon

Actual results:
Nothing happens - Konsole stays in the foreground (incl. keyboard focus)

Expected results:
One of the Chrome windows pops to the foreground

Additional info:

Doesn't happen on X. This just one usability issue with Plasma on Wayland, I don't want to overwhelm bugzilla with all of them b/c they might have a common cause.
Comment 1 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-10 06:54:39 UTC 
Created attachment 1781540 [details]
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Comment 2 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-10 06:55:01 UTC 
Created attachment 1781541 [details]
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Comment 3 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-10 06:55:29 UTC 
Created attachment 1781542 [details]
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Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2021-05-10 14:48:28 UTC 
I cannot reproduce what is reported here.

Clicking items in taskbar always brings them to the front for me.
Comment 5 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-10 15:07:50 UTC 
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #4)
> I cannot reproduce what is reported here.
> 
> Clicking items in taskbar always brings them to the front for me.

That's a pitty... Is there a way for me to add debug information that will give more visibility into the problem? Plasma is not a program you just run, so the additional documented debugging aids in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems#Filing_a_bug don't seem to apply.
Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2021-05-10 15:14:23 UTC 
If the problem is not readily reproducible, that makes debugging a lot harder unfortunately. :(

That said, may be worth asking on other support forums first to see if other users see this or not.  That may help identify some common factors.

In general, I encourage you to reach out to upstream kde.org resources as much as possible when reporting bugs/problems, as they will be in the best position to diagnose and ultimately fix problems.  At least if you're not sure it's a fedora-specific issue.

Options include:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help

some specifically,
* fedora kde mailing list, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde.lists.fedoraproject.org/
* fedora kde chat (irc/matrix)
* kde project chat, https://userbase.kde.org/IRC_Channels
* https://forum.kde.org/
* https://ask.fedoraproject.org
Comment 7 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-11 05:34:48 UTC 
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #6)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436907

Thanks!
Comment 8 Uri Simchoni 2021-05-15 03:32:00 UTC 
Upstream bug says it's fixed in Plasma 5.22 - is upgrade to 5.22 something we can expect in Fedora 34 or is it a subject for future releases of Fedora?
Comment 9 marcdeop 2021-05-15 08:52:39 UTC 
(In reply to Uri Simchoni from comment #8)
> Upstream bug says it's fixed in Plasma 5.22 - is upgrade to 5.22 something
> we can expect in Fedora 34 or is it a subject for future releases of Fedora?

Normally we do update Plasma for the latest Fedora release.
Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 15:36:24 UTC 
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Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2022-06-07 22:26:24 UTC 
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