Bug 314667

Summary:	Comic description disappears after about 1 second
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	t.jp
Component:	widget-comic	Assignee:	Matthias Fuchs <mat69>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mat69, mrb, post, quazgar, wonko
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.10.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description t.jp 2013-02-08 12:18:13 UTC

With the comic widget and AOPD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) Comic (have not tested others) the picture description which appears when the mouse is placed over the picture disappears after 1 second everytime without moving the mouse at all or clicking somewhere. 

With KDE 4.9.5 I can't remember this being the case since it is very annoying and you can't read the text this fast. It should go away only after you click somewhere else or move the mouse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Place Widget on Desktop
2. Configure and select/install AOPD Comic (found under popular comics)
3. Once refreshed and current picture is visible place the mouse cursor on the picture to have the description appear. Wait until it disappears all by itself.
Actual Results:  
Discription disappeaers without input.

Expected Results:  
Discription should be visible as long as the is no user input like clicking or mouse  movement

Only configuaration active under "Comic-Widgit/Appearance" is "Only show arrows on mouse contact". Everything else is at default.

Comment 1 t.jp 2013-02-08 15:47:38 UTC

I just made a complete rollback to 4.9.5 with pacman -Suu and on 4.9.5 the comic-widget works as expected. So there is definately a regression in 4.10.

Comment 2 Reza 2013-02-22 02:22:56 UTC

*** Bug 315218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Matias Barletta 2013-04-07 20:13:38 UTC

I am experiencing this as well - 

Kubuntu Kde 4.10.2  

The description is too large to be read in that timeframe

Comment 4 t.jp 2013-04-08 14:59:03 UTC

Why is this still unconfirmed? It's so easy to replicate.

Comment 5 quazgar 2013-04-10 06:11:59 UTC

I can also confirm this on 4.10.2 (Gentoo, amd64)

Comment 6 Ralf Jung 2013-05-31 09:08:56 UTC

This is probably caused by the comic widget now using the standard Plasma tooltip, which have a too short timeout for such large texts.

Comment 7 Wonko 2013-09-22 10:42:08 UTC

Is this really that hard to fix? This way, the plasmoid is not really useful for many comics.

Sigh. Just wondering. It has other issues as well, so nowadays I prefer to view comics in a webbrowser, but I'd like it to be usable again.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:49:13 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 is already 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