Bug 333445

Summary:	Show shell components in Desktop Grid effect
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Giorgi Gzirishvili <drn+dev.report.bugs.kde>
Component:	effects-desktop-grid	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bhush94, bugs.kde, drn+dev.report.bugs.kde, mo.mashi69, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.21.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/7a4cabf3287e82e7d1d6ba84b8b059ab470f9f42	Version Fixed In:	5.25
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Giorgi Gzirishvili 2014-04-15 08:22:24 UTC

Here is an interesting "bug" I discovered yesterday. My current system is openSUSE 13.1 with KDE 4.12.4, but I also checked on Fedora 20 with KDE 4.11.3 and I got the same result, so it affects some (maybe all) previous versions of KDE 4 too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new file by right clicking free area of the Folder View widget > Create New > Text File... and name it whatever you want.
2. Repeat the first step and give a file the same name.
3. After that, "File Already Exists" dialog box should appear. Right click the Title Bar of the window > Move To Desktop > <current desktop>.
4. Switch to another desktop.
5. Whala!
Actual Results:  
KDE Plasma Shell disappeared on all the other desktops.

Expected Results:  
Only the dialog box should do this.

Comment 1 thebunnyrules 2015-10-30 06:56:32 UTC

I confirm that this bug is happening to me too. I am on KDE 5.4 . Everything works well for a couple of hours and out of the blue, when switching to virtual desktop 2 there is no desktop background, all the widgets and panels disappear. On Desktop 1 they're still there and working perfectly well, on desktop 2,3,etc they dissapear. You can still use desktop grid to drag windows to the black desktops and they work flawlessly and if there windows in those desktops before the black crash (I guess it's crash), they'll still be there, fine and dandy.

I'm including some info about my system:

Octopi Sys-Info Output: http://pastebin.com/btVaPDDD
sudo blkid: http://pastebin.com/e4tzLh8Z
sudo fdisk -l: http://pastebin.com/060sNYvp
sudo journalctl -b | grep plasma:  http://pastebin.com/skvn3v9e

Is there something else you want to see?

Comment 2 Giorgi Gzirishvili 2017-02-04 23:57:47 UTC

Just checked and the bug is still present in Plasma 5.8.4. I've reported it almost 3 years ago in 4.12.4; many things changed since then; however, this bug is still present. Why does Plasma treat shell components as though they were normal windows? You can literally move application launcher between the desktops or on the desktop via Window Actions for Inner Window modifier key (which is Alt by default).

Here's a short demo of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNy4ha0MiSA&t=2m40s

It is really bad design. Shell components should be treated differently.

Comment 3 Giorgi Gzirishvili 2017-10-22 10:24:49 UTC

Update: So, I checked it again and desktop widgets no longer disappear, but the panels still do.

Comment 4 Alexander Mentyu 2017-11-20 07:17:04 UTC

Can confirm this bug in:

Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition - Stable Branches
Plasma: 5.11.3
Frameworks: 5.41.0
Qt: 5.9.1
Kernel 4.10.0-38-generic
Type: 64-bit

Panel doesn't appearing on second desktop also after closing of file already exists dialog

Comment 5 Giorgi Gzirishvili 2020-07-31 10:50:11 UTC

So, a quick update: It's still present in 5.19.

Comment 6 Marco Martin 2022-05-06 10:48:13 UTC

Git commit 7a4cabf3287e82e7d1d6ba84b8b059ab470f9f42 by Marco Martin.
Committed on 06/05/2022 at 10:44.
Pushed by mart into branch 'master'.

QML version of the Desktop Grid effect

Replace completely the old desktop grid effect with a QML version.
Aims to feature parity and be a change as transparent as possible for the user.
Related: bug 433071, bug 452625, bug 443971, bug 437121, bug 452925, bug 437928, bug 452439, bug 288530, bug 450254, bug 450106, bug 447832, bug 449960, bug 416576, bug 441862, bug 444859, bug 445999, bug 422117, bug 404627, bug 435483, bug 420744, bug 435482, bug 427055, bug 429120, bug 427391, bug 409295, bug 294322, bug 356955
FIXED-IN: 5.25

M  +5    -0    src/effects.cpp
M  +10   -5    src/effects/desktopgrid/CMakeLists.txt
D  +0    -1571 src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid.cpp
D  +0    -186  src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid.h
D  +0    -32   src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid.kcfg
M  +6    -14   src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.cpp
M  +2    -2    src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.h
M  +68   -144  src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.ui
A  +32   -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgridconfig.kcfg
M  +5    -1    src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgridconfig.kcfgc
A  +342  -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrideffect.cpp     [License: GPL(v2.0+)]
A  +108  -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/desktopgrideffect.h     [License: GPL(v2.0+)]
M  +5    -4    src/effects/desktopgrid/main.cpp
D  +0    -26   src/effects/desktopgrid/main.qml
M  +1    -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/metadata.json
A  +255  -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/qml/DesktopView.qml     [License: GPL(v2.0+)]
A  +193  -0    src/effects/desktopgrid/qml/main.qml     [License: GPL(v2.0+)]
M  +22   -5    src/effects/private/qml/WindowHeap.qml
M  +21   -3    src/libkwineffects/kwineffects.h
M  +4    -1    src/libkwineffects/kwinquickeffect.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/7a4cabf3287e82e7d1d6ba84b8b059ab470f9f42