Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 502116
Plasma popups never stay passive - they always get focus
Last modified: 2009-05-31 08:29:18 EDT
Description of problem: PopupApplets (widgets that open when you click on an icon in the panel) are not passive although they should be. That means they steal the focus from the latest opened window when openend. They should NOT do that when a method setPassivePopup(true) is called on them. That's true for the calendar applet for example. This may sound as a minor problem. BUT I have developed a virtual keyboard for plasma. And as it always gets focus when opened, it does not work anymore because all key events it produces are send to itself. I experience this problem sind I upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.2.2 and 4.2.3, but just in Fedora 11! How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on you calendar applet in the panel Actual results: The latest window you have worked on looses the focus. The plasma widget gets it. Keys you type are shown nowhere on the screen. Expected results: The window should maintain the focus. If you type something and you have activated some text field, you will see the keystrokes in it. Additional info: This little app cannot work because of that bug: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Plasmaboard?content=101822 I have no idea what is wrong in the fedora 11 builds of KDE. I might talk back to the KDE developers.
Looks like an issue with Qt 4.5.0. Can you please try 4.5.1 from updates-testing?
Tried. Does not help. I upgraded to Fedora 11 on 28th April. Before that it worked on my Fedora 10 install. I believe there was already qt-4.5 running on F10 at that time.
Qt 4.5.0 got pushed to stable on April 22.
Then it is definetly no Qt-4.5 problem. Have qt-4.5 running on Kubuntu 9.04, too. The bug is not there.
Bug or incompatible change in some lower-level library? Or maybe in GCC (causing Qt or KDE to be miscompiled)?
Cannot know. Are there any patches for Qt or kdelibs/kdebase that are only in Fedora 11?
No (nothing f11-specific). Fwiw, I can't seem to reproduce this. plasma notifications here don't steal focus for me.
I don't mean notifications! I mean PlasmaPopups. Click on the clock and a calendar comes up. That calendar is the popup. And it steals focus of the active window for me. On different users.
Maybe I'm missing something, but that would match my expectations (you click on a widget, it gets focus).
Anyway, have you contacted kde upstream (either via mailing list or bugzilla)? If not, I'd suggest you do, to at least get a handle on what the expected behavior is.
The expected behaviour IS that the popup stays passive IF setPassivePopup() is called on the plasma applet. So the programmer can decide whether it steals focus or not. For my virtual touchscreen I need it to stay passive. It cannot work otherwise.
Shrug, I'm still having difficulty reproducing this. Test 1: open konsole, start typing unplug laptop to induce battery monitor popup "The power adapter has been unplugged" continue typing in konsole, with no loss of focus This disproves (for me anyway), the subject that "Plasma popups ... always get focus" Can you perhaps provide an concrete example of a popup that is supposed to be passive, but isn't?
OK, you provided "1. Click on you calendar applet in the panel", it's unclear to me whether this is suppose to be passive or not. I'll go digging in the code.
Asking in #fedora-kde, I found at least one other to confirm my findings, that the digital clock applet behaves the same on F-10, with kde-4.2.3 (and qt-4.5.0) too (ie, it steals focus).
I can only repeat that I don't mean notfications but popups. To be precise, I mean all plasmoids that inherit von PopupApplet-Class. See here: http://api.kde.org/4.2-api/kdelibs-apidocs/plasma/html/classPlasma_1_1PopupApplet.html#856c24802708ab3ae3424c0b16adc76e There you find the function setPassivePopup. If that is called with parameter true, the popup should stay passive. The digital clock applet does use that function and should stay passive. But it does not. I now found a Fedora 10 install and yes, the problem is there too. Before the 28 April I nealry daily developed on a plasmoid that relies heavily on not stealing the focus. I would have noticed if the problem had been there on Fedora 10 before.
The digital clock applet also steals focus on F9 + stable updates: qt-4.5.0-14.fc9.i386 qt-x11-4.5.0-14.fc9.i386 kdelibs-4.2.3-2.fc9.i386 kdebase-workspace-4.2.3-4.fc9.i386
I just see that the digital-clock is not meant to stay passive. Strange, it did earlier. However, there seems to be no applet in the normal packages that uses the "stay passive"-feature. Just my own plasmoid. I'm still sure that there is a problem but I will talk back with upstream now. As this feature is not used often this may indeed be a bug introduced in qt-4.5 or > kde 4.2.2 that no one noticed.
Thanks, when/if you do contact upstream, please provide ml or bugzilla links here so that we can continue to track the issue.
Well, I talked back and the kde devs told me that this is indeed expectet behaviour. Must find another way to keep my plasmoid unfocused. You can disregard this bug report.