Bug 188655

Summary: kickoff menu doesn't get keyboard focus when opened (4.2.2 regression)
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Antonio Rojas <arojas>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: aseigo, aspotashev, awen, bartek, beloved.the, benny.malengier, chgonzalezg, Der_L, excalibur1491, fe.thomm, finex, jr, kneczaj, lgrinberg, lucas, martin.schlander, me, mikesena, Mo6eeeB, MurzNN, null, papaf, paulatgm, pierre+libre.kde, quantumphazor, rbyshko, sven.burmeister, theunknowncylon, thilo, tiposchi, xrfang, yakov.shereshevsky
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandriva RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Antonio Rojas 2009-04-02 13:35:55 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

In 4.2.2, kickoff menu doesn't get the keyboard focus anymore when opened. Very inconvenient if you use a keyboard shortcut to open it and search for some program, since now you need to click on the search field. It used to work fine in 4.2.1
Comment 1 paul 2009-04-03 04:48:44 UTC
I can confirm this on ubuntu 9.04 beta after upgrading to new kde 4.2.2 packages.
Comment 2 Bart 2009-04-03 09:21:00 UTC
I also get this on openSUSE (with 4.2.2). I have compositing and effects turned on and kwin as window manager. Just a few minutes ago I was trying compiz 0.8.something, and it looks like this "kick off menu focus thing" works with compiz without any problems. I reverted back to kwin, and it again stopped working properly (I have to click somewhere inside the menu, to make it react to keyboard events).
Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-04-03 11:20:10 UTC
Confirmed in current trunk (r947715)
Comment 4 FiNeX 2009-04-03 11:46:38 UTC
*** Bug 188707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Christian Lichtsinn 2009-04-03 19:35:16 UTC
I can confirm this on Arch Linux after upgrading to KDE 4.2.2 (kdemod).
Comment 6 Rettich 2009-04-03 22:00:07 UTC
I can confirm this on openSuse 11.1
Comment 7 S. Burmeister 2009-04-04 11:10:45 UTC
*** Bug 188792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Maciej Mrozowski 2009-04-04 11:21:47 UTC
Confirmed on Gentoo as well (after upgrade 4.2.1 -> 4.2.2).
Using all-the-same Qt 4.4.3 patched with qt-copy patches.
Comment 9 Dario Andres 2009-04-04 15:19:13 UTC
*** Bug 188756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2009-04-05 08:58:33 UTC
*** Bug 188859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Gonzalo Díaz Cruz 2009-04-05 21:56:25 UTC
Confirm this bug in Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04, using KDE 4.2.2 packages (updated to this day).
Comment 12 Tero M 2009-04-06 00:11:08 UTC
I can also confirm this. I am using KDE 4.2.2. with Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04. It used to work before KDE 4.2.2. update. If I turn compiz on as a window manager, kickoff keyboard focus works fine but if I use kwin it doesn't.
Comment 13 Andrew M 2009-04-06 03:02:05 UTC
It seems to definitely be related to Kwin.

I replaced it with Openbox and Kicker gets proper focus, upon changing back to Kwin it breaks again.

Would it be possible that the window specific behaviour configuration can be used to work around this temporarily?
Comment 14 Rex Dieter 2009-04-06 16:35:25 UTC
*** Bug 188962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Diego 2009-04-06 18:23:13 UTC
As suggested by Rex Dieter maybe this has something to do with bug #183002
If you "kquitapp kwin" Kickoff and KRunner will have serious problems...
Comment 16 Andrew M 2009-04-07 11:29:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> As suggested by Rex Dieter maybe this has something to do with bug #183002
> If you "kquitapp kwin" Kickoff and KRunner will have serious problems...

It works fine in Openbox for me though. Only Kwin is having the problems.
It is the same problem, only the roles reversed.

I also tried to use the window specific behaviour thing for kicker without success. Disabling focus prevention for Kicker ("Plasma applet") did nothing.
Comment 17 Peter Hoeg 2009-04-07 12:25:50 UTC
My workaround is to use Lancelot instead which does the right thing in terms of focus.
Comment 18 Gabriel Klein 2009-04-07 19:26:26 UTC
Confirmed for Kubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) packages (from PPA kubuntu-experimental repository). Worked fine with 4.2.1 packages
Comment 19 Stephan Binner 2009-04-08 13:28:17 UTC
*** Bug 189095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Murz 2009-04-08 14:11:09 UTC
Confirmed for Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty after update to 4.2.2 KDE version.
Comment 21 S. Burmeister 2009-04-08 14:13:29 UTC
I think there are enough "I can confirm this". Please just CC yourself if you see this and only comment if you have a hint on what is causing this or a patch that can fix this. Thanks.
Comment 22 Benny 2009-04-08 14:20:40 UTC
S. Burmeister, I don't know how kde bugs are triaged, but due to the made comments, a reminder/forward to somebody of the kwin team seems in order.
Comment 23 Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-08 20:19:12 UTC
*** Bug 189131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24 Christoph Feck 2009-04-09 03:54:43 UTC
*** Bug 189166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 25 lucas 2009-04-09 05:20:00 UTC
There were four changes to KWin in 4.2.2 from 4.2.1: An XRandR 1.2 compositing fix, a desktop cube modification and two minor magic lamp patches.

As none of these have anything remotely related to window focus it is not KWin that broke the menu between these two versions.
Comment 26 Thilo-Alexander Ginkel 2009-04-09 08:35:30 UTC
Ok, so if kwin cannot have caused this regression, which other components are involved? I'd start digging through the changelog to identify regression candidates, but my plasma knowledge is too limited to come up with a sensible list of components to limit the search to.
Comment 27 Mauro 2009-04-09 09:05:13 UTC
Confirmed here with kde-4.2.2/kwin, Ubuntu 8.10
Comment 28 lucas 2009-04-09 10:28:11 UTC
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=951367 for those who are looking.
Comment 29 Stephan Binner 2009-04-09 14:23:06 UTC
*** Bug 188696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30 Jonathan Riddell 2009-04-10 01:14:01 UTC
Here's a better fix for the issue
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kdelibs/ubuntu/revision/46
Comment 31 Pino Toscano 2009-04-10 21:39:30 UTC
*** Bug 189297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 32 Pino Toscano 2009-04-11 20:44:02 UTC
*** Bug 189396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 33 Rettich 2009-04-12 14:58:37 UTC
This is fixed in the openSuse KDE Factory packeges now.
Comment 34 Pino Toscano 2009-04-15 01:01:08 UTC
*** Bug 189663 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 35 excalibur1491 2009-04-15 11:15:26 UTC
I'm on Debian ustable/testing and I also have this bug on my KDE 4.2.2-2, but there is not an update available on Debian repositories to solve this. How can I fix this bug? (I'm new at Linux)

Thanks
Comment 36 Christoph Feck 2009-04-16 21:01:20 UTC
*** Bug 189830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 37 Pino Toscano 2009-04-17 13:03:51 UTC
*** Bug 189859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 38 Pino Toscano 2009-04-17 21:41:54 UTC
*** Bug 189917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 39 Pino Toscano 2009-04-17 21:42:00 UTC
*** Bug 189918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 40 Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-27 14:25:10 UTC
*** Bug 188793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 41 Pino Toscano 2009-05-01 17:04:20 UTC
*** Bug 191205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***