508572 2025-08-21 18:19:05 +0000 Deleting cloned panel with a sticky note on it permanently destroys contents of *original* panel's sticky note 2025-08-26 14:36:33 +0000 1 1 4 Plasma plasmashell Panel 6.4.80 KDE Linux Linux RESOLVED FIXED https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453673 VHI critical 1.0 1 nate plasma-bugs-null kdedev niccolo.venerandi niccolo notmart https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/865efe1aca54fe167b3f4317ba303d0b5ce6756b 6.4.5 0 oldest_to_newest 2449334 0 nate 2025-08-21 18:19:05 +0000 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Put a Sticky Note widget on your panel 2. Write lots of things in it that would be extremely disruptive or saddening to lose 3. Right-click on an empty area of the panel > Show Panel Configuration 4. Clone panel > click on one of the big arrows to clone the panel there 5. Delete the new panel 6. Restart plasmashell 7. Click on the Sticky Note widget on the *original* panel OBSERVED RESULT The sticky note is empty! Fortunately I had a backup from a few days ago. However, this is still data loss, and if without that backup it would have been irretrievable data loss. EXPECTED RESULT The sticky note's text is still there. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-08-21 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.16.1-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Here's what happened: the cloned sticky note retained its config data, so it was pointing at a specific file in ~/.local/share/plasma_notes/ — the same file that the old sticky note is pointing at! When the cloned panel was deleted, the cloned Sticky Note widget deleted the underlying file that both Sticky Note widgets were using. This made it unavailable to the original panel too, but only after restarting plasmashell or the system. At that point, data loss has occurred. 2449336 1 nate 2025-08-21 18:23:35 +0000 Likely caused by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/98b2cb809c3a4bf7ebd3b4a318a1aa88a465f0d5 2449337 2 nate 2025-08-21 18:24:08 +0000 Side note: it would be good to move the underlying file to the trash rather than deleting it. 2449340 3 nate 2025-08-21 18:25:28 +0000 Which would likely represent a fix for Bug 453673. 2449456 4 niccolo 2025-08-22 09:15:59 +0000 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/897 would fix this 2450358 5 niccolo 2025-08-26 08:10:22 +0000 Git commit 04badef38de928e8386c93b044fd9bd54e95c0bd by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 26/08/2025 at 08:10. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Deduplicate multiple applets asking to use the same note file This also trashes notes instead of deleting them, which makes them recoverable. Related: bug 453673 M +1 -0 applets/notes/CMakeLists.txt M +1 -1 applets/notes/abstractnoteloader.h M +29 -6 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.cpp M +2 -1 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.h M +2 -2 applets/notes/notemanager.cpp M +1 -1 applets/notes/notemanager.h M +1 -1 applets/notes/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/04badef38de928e8386c93b044fd9bd54e95c0bd 2450359 6 niccolo 2025-08-26 08:13:25 +0000 Git commit 865efe1aca54fe167b3f4317ba303d0b5ce6756b by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 26/08/2025 at 08:13. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. Deduplicate multiple applets asking to use the same note file This also trashes notes instead of deleting them, which makes them recoverable. Related: bug 453673 Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s) Co-authored-by: Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> M +2 -0 applets/notes/CMakeLists.txt M +1 -1 applets/notes/abstractnoteloader.h M +29 -6 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.cpp M +2 -1 applets/notes/filesystemnoteloader.h M +2 -2 applets/notes/notemanager.cpp M +1 -1 applets/notes/notemanager.h M +1 -1 applets/notes/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/865efe1aca54fe167b3f4317ba303d0b5ce6756b