Bug 124796

Summary:	on every second rightclick, the context menu does not stay
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, grundleborg
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Benno Schulenberg 2006-04-02 23:56:35 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-3.4.6 hardened
OS:                Linux

Upon rightclicking, a context menu appears.  When rightclicking again in a somewhat different spot, the first context menu disappears, appears in the new spot, and immediately disappears again.  This happens consistently: on every uneven rightclick the context menu appears and stays put, on every even rightclick the context menu just blinkers and stays away.

Except when rightclicking near the bottom edge or the right edge!  When the context menu appears to the left or above the mouse pointer (instead of to the lower right), then the menu stays put on every rightclick.

The undesired blinking on even rightclicks happens:
* in Konqueror (both as browser and as file manager),
* in KMail (but only in the Message list and the Preview pane, not in the Folder list),
* in Kate (in Editor window, in Document list, in Filesystem browser).

Strangely, it does not happen anywhere in KWrite: there every rightclick any place always correctly shows the context menu.

Comment 1 Martin Koller 2006-11-12 23:09:37 UTC

confirmed on KDE-3.5.5

Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-03-08 16:25:08 UTC

Cannot reproduce on more recent version of KDE such  3.5.8 and 4.0.2.

Comment 3 Benno Schulenberg 2008-03-08 19:22:48 UTC

It is still there in KDE 3.5.9.

It may be necessary to clarify: with "click" I mean "click-and-release".

In KMail the immediate disappearance of the context menu now happens everywhere: in the folder list, in the message list, and in the preview pane.  For the first two I can't test all positions, but for the preview pane it matters where the context menu appears in relation to the mouse pointer: when to the lower-left or upper-right, the menu always stays; when to the upper-left or lower-right, the menu blinks and stays away on every second rightclick.

In Konqueror it is the same as in KMail's preview pane.  But in Kwrite the menu only blinks when it appears to the upper-left of the pointer.

When the context menu appears to the lower-right of the mouse pointer, it is necessary to move the pinter a little, away from the menu, to see the effect.

Comment 4 George Goldberg 2008-06-22 09:58:26 UTC

This bug is definitely not present in trunk (context menu behaves a bit differently there - odd clicks make it appear, even clicks make it disappear) - and I can't reporduce it in 3.5.9 in any of the situations listed in the report, or comment #3