Bug 235896

Summary:	"Open-With"-Menu sometimes doesn't appear
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, mail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot of "open-with-list" not beeing displayed

Description Clemens Eisserer 2010-05-01 11:36:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
Compiler:          gcc 4.4.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Sometimes when I right-click on a file in Dolphin, and move the mouse to the "Open-With"- menu-item no menu appears, even if I explicitly on the entry, no sub-menu appears.
When I close the context-menu, and try it again it usually works quite fine.

Attached is a screenshot illustrating the problem. No matter what I do, the open-with-file-list won't appear.

I've seen this behaviour from time to time, probably some race-condition like if my mouse is reaches the "Open-With"-Entry quicker than KDE was able to build the open-with list or something like that.

Comment 1 Clemens Eisserer 2010-05-01 11:37:08 UTC

Created attachment 43139 [details]
screenshot of "open-with-list" not beeing displayed

Comment 2 FiNeX 2010-08-01 16:19:29 UTC

Can you reproduce the bug with the oxygen style too? Which style are you using?

Comment 3 Clemens Eisserer 2010-08-01 16:22:04 UTC

Could you elaborate why you think this bug is somehow related to the theme used?

Comment 4 FiNeX 2010-08-01 22:11:03 UTC

It wouldn't be the first time that the theme could generate a problem. Anyway this bug could be related to bug #246102

Comment 5 Clemens Eisserer 2010-08-02 11:51:36 UTC

Just my personal opinion, I don't think its related to 246102 nor is it a theme bug.

I looks like some kind of race condition, where the values of the menu are generated in a lazy way. However if for some reason the menu should open but the list-generation hasn't finished no sub-menu opens up.
This would also explain why it happens in a random way only on files which haven't had this interaction before, and why it alwayws works the second time I open the context menu.

- Clemens

Comment 6 FiNeX 2010-08-02 15:42:02 UTC

@Clemens: just for excluding all the possibilities, would you like to check this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246102#c3

Thanks :-)

Comment 7 Julian Steinmann 2018-03-14 11:35:39 UTC

I think this should be fixed now. Can anyone still reproduce this bug? If not, I'll close it soon™.

Comment 8 Julian Steinmann 2018-03-31 12:18:42 UTC

No response -> closing. Please reopen if you can still reproduce this behavior with the newest version of Dolphin.