Bug 302357

Summary: f17 showing the weather station widget option dialog sometimes leaves a "task hole" in the panel
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Reartes Guillermo <rtguille>
Component: widget-weatherAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: minor CC: shawn.starr
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.9.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: normal, before closing the weather station's options window
bad: after closing the weather station's config window, empty space in the panel

Description Reartes Guillermo 2012-06-22 16:58:03 UTC
In the example, i have a konsole and a firefox window. But firefox seems enough to reproduce it.

When firefox in on the desktop, if i open the weather station config dialog and close it, it space in the panel (taskbar) becomes empty, that is ok, exept it is at the oposite side... so a "task hole" is created until a new task/window shifts everithing to fill the "void".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open firefox

method #1:
2A: maximize it. CTRL+F12, select the weather station, open the options dialog and close it.

method #2:
2B: do not maximize it, select the weather station, open the options dialog and close it.

3. The firefox position in the panel becomes pseudo-centered until a new windows shifts it to the left.




kde-settings-plasma.noarch                4.8-13.fc17      @koji-override-0/$releasever
kdeplasma-addons.x86_64                 4.8.3-1.fc17     @koji-override-0/$releasever
kdeplasma-addons-libs.x86_64           4.8.3-1.fc17     @koji-override-0/$releasever
plasma-scriptengine-python.x86_64    4.8.3-3.fc17     @koji-override-0/$releasever
Comment 1 Reartes Guillermo 2012-06-22 17:02:43 UTC
Created attachment 72049 [details]
normal, before closing the weather station's options window
Comment 2 Reartes Guillermo 2012-06-22 17:03:43 UTC
Created attachment 72050 [details]
bad: after closing the weather station's config window, empty space in the panel
Comment 3 Reartes Guillermo 2012-08-17 01:32:04 UTC
the weather station is not requiered to reproduce the issue.
It happens also in F16, i do not use any desktop widget there and i also experience
these 'task holes'.
Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-09-08 09:39:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> the weather station is not requiered to reproduce the issue.
> It happens also in F16

Which is what exact KDE version?
Comment 5 Reartes Guillermo 2012-10-17 17:20:25 UTC
After quite some time i experienced it with 4.9.2

I closed a window (i am not sue what, it took me by surprise).
But Firefox was the next program right to the resulting 'task hole'

whatever its it is less frequent in the 4.9.xx series.
Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-10-19 18:37:42 UTC
Thank you for the feedback.
Comment 7 Reartes Guillermo 2012-11-24 19:46:46 UTC
Steps to reproduce (100% reproducible):

KDE: 4.9.3

1. Launch 'konsole' or 'xterm'
2. Launch 'firefox'
3. Launch 'libreoffice-writer' 
4. Close  'libreoffice-wrirer'
Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2012-11-24 20:49:13 UTC
I cannot reproduce using the steps from comment #7 with a freshly created user account, which means they are either imprecise, or your configuration is different.

Which applications are in the taskbar before step 1? How do you lauch the applications? How long or for what event do you wait before proceeding with the next step?
Comment 9 Reartes Guillermo 2012-11-24 21:14:55 UTC
I tried on another machine (host B) and i could not reproduce it at first. I added the weather station and then i could reproduce it. (with the same steps).  I removed the weather station and the issue was gone.

On Host A i tried removing the weather station, moon phase and the dictionary but the issue could still be reproduced. I was not able to stop being capable of reproducing it on Host A.

0. Boot and login. Note: All programs are launched with ALT+F2
1. Launch 'konsole' or 'xterm' 
2. Launch 'firefox'
3. Launch 'libreoffice-writer' 
4. Close  'libreoffice-wrirer'
Comment 10 Reartes Guillermo 2016-08-23 00:27:44 UTC
F17 is currently old and EOL.

Please close.
Comment 11 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:16:04 UTC
Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham