Bug 188696

Summary:	kickoff doesn't close itself automatically
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Pierre Buard <pierre+libre.kde>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, arojas, dimitris.kalamaras, ehamberg, finex, hussam.al, mutlu_inek, qiilaq69, thilo
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Pierre Buard 2009-04-03 00:30:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

The Kickoff menu doesn't hide when one clicks outside of it.

How to reproduce:
- Click on it, the menu is displayed,
- Don't launch a program,
- Click somewhere outside kickoff,
- The menu is still there!

Expected behavior:
Kickoff should close automatically when the user click outside of it.
Or at least an option should be added to control this behavior.

This also happens with at least 2 other widgets: the connected devices thingy and the clocks' calendar. The fact that the calendar remains on screen doesn't bother me (actually it can be useful that way) but the others are too big not to close themselves automagically.

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-04-03 03:46:52 UTC

Are you using Desktop Compositing (effects) ?
Thanks

Comment 2 Antonio Rojas 2009-04-03 10:07:54 UTC

Possibly related to bug 188655 ? Popup applets are badly broken in 4.2.2 :(

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-04-03 11:45:53 UTC

I can reproduce this bug too. With and without compositing.

Comment 4 Pierre Buard 2009-04-03 14:54:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you using Desktop Compositing (effects) ?

Yes, I am. But just to be sure I tested this without them to no avail.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Popup applets are badly broken in 4.2.2 :(

My shoddy memory seems to remember that it worked as expected in =< 4.2.1 (at least concerning Kickoff).

Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-04-04 15:29:39 UTC

@A Rojas: it's probably a duplicate.
To everyone: if you click the Kickoff icon to launch the menu, does the searchbar at the top get keyboard focus ? If it doesn't. this is a duplicate of bug 188655

Comment 6 Marek Laane 2009-04-04 15:35:49 UTC

No, it doesn't but are you sure it's duplicate? I mean the underlying cause may be same but symptoms themselves are differnt, aren't they? So no duplicates but maybe just related (there are possibilities to mark BR with "Bepends on" or "Blocks")?

Comment 7 Pierre Buard 2009-04-04 15:44:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> No, it doesn't but are you sure it's duplicate?
+1 on both remarks (although I'm not a developer :-)

Comment 8 Dario Andres 2009-04-04 16:45:10 UTC

May be we can mark it as related/dependsOn.
Look at bug 188756 (it shows the two things)

Comment 9 Dimitris Kalamaras 2009-04-06 21:31:17 UTC

Same problem here, using KDE 4.2.2 on Mandriva Cooker. The Kickoff menu really insists staying open even after I have clicked somewhere on the desktop. Really small but deeply annoying, if you ask me. :)

Comment 10 mutlu inek 2009-04-06 23:06:40 UTC

This is not a wish, this is a bug since it is a regression. It worked well in 4.2.1 and was designed to close when losing focus. I.e., the calendar remains open is by design. If kickoff remains open is a bug.

I'm glad we have a classic app launcher. :)

Comment 11 Dario Andres 2009-04-08 22:38:50 UTC

*** Bug 189147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Stephan Binner 2009-04-09 14:23:06 UTC

Same reason and fix as bug 188655

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188655 ***