Bug 420617

Summary:	Highlight of windows which require action sometime doesn't cancel and prevent taskbar from hiding
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	lateralus23 <pierrell>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs, rychi32, sparkmachine91
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.18.8
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description lateralus23 2020-04-26 12:51:11 UTC

SUMMARY
When configuring the bottom (by default) bar as "hide automatically", it reveals itself when a window requires an user input, and you can see which one because it's highlighted in the taskbar. But sometimes, activating the window doesn't stop it from being highlighted, so the bar doesn't hide. It happened for multiple applications (Konsole, Firefox, Signal, even Dolphin if I remember right), and I keep the line `pkill plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell` in my shell history which is my only way to see again the bottom of my fullscreen windows.
(sorry if I'm not using the right terms, it's harder as plasma is localized)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Configure the bar containing the windows list as "hide automatically"
2. Use multiple programs which may require an user input
3. At some point, you may be unable to make the taskbar hide again

OBSERVED RESULT
The taskbar doesn't hide when activating an highlighted window

EXPECTED RESULT
The window stop being hightlighted when it's activated, and the taskbar hide again

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 lateralus23 2020-04-26 13:00:37 UTC

It happened just after filing this issue and it doesn't seem to be so much about "windows that ask for focus". The taskbar stays visible, but if you change the focused window, it's this window that gets highlighted in the taskbar. You just have no way to get the bar to hide.

Comment 2 Rene Locher 2021-08-09 08:50:11 UTC

I suffer from the same experience:
Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-80-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 7.5 GiB

Comment 3 sparkmachine91 2022-10-29 11:45:11 UTC

Hello, do you still have this problem? I was not able to reproduce it unfortunately. For me, the bottom bar works as expected, even if I have multiple windows requiring input are open.

Comment 4 Rene Locher 2022-10-29 14:38:51 UTC

(In reply to timo-fluss from comment #3)
> Hello, do you still have this problem? I was not able to reproduce it
> unfortunately. For me, the bottom bar works as expected, even if I have
> multiple windows requiring input are open.

Thank you for asking. I have not observed this misbehavior since some months. I have KDE  Plasma Version 5.18.8 meanwhile.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-10-29 14:52:50 UTC

Cool, let's call it fixed.