Bug 423852

Summary:	Visual bug, various apps' notifications show HTML code
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	gadzinisko
Component:	System Tray	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	blaze, kde, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.18.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description gadzinisko 2020-07-03 20:28:32 UTC

On a freshly installed openSUSE 15.2 when I hover over icons of some applications (I found qBittorrent and Clementine, others person mentioned Amarok) it shows HTML code instead of intended message. Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/B2DsdfB

openSUSE guys told me to report it here after I filed a bug on distro's bug tracker https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173696


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Hover over tray icons of mentioned applications

OBSERVED RESULT
Shows HTML code

EXPECTED RESULT
Should show messages

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE 15.2
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.71.0
Qt Version: 5.12.7

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2020-07-04 16:12:03 UTC

I can confirm this for Clementine, haven't checked the others.

According to the statusnotifier spec (https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/StatusNotifierItem/) it is legal to have HTML markup in the tooltip subtitle, but not in the tooltip title. The Plasma code adheres to that and does not allow HTML markup in the title.

Clementine however sets a tooltip title with HTML markup and an empty tooltip subtitle, so it violates the specification.

Plasma could therefore:
- Do nothing and blame Clementine since that's where this should be addressed
- Deviate from the spec and allow HTML markup in the title
- Strip away HTML markup in the title

Given that the latter two may result in undesirable unforseen results I'm inclined to advocate for the first option.

See also https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/6733 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422616

Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2020-07-04 16:24:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 422616 ***

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2020-07-04 22:33:06 UTC

>- Do nothing and blame Clementine since that's where this should be addressed

Yes please. Even if we change you still have a bug in the app - if we deviate from the spec you end up with apps coding for that.

Comment 4 blaze 2020-08-04 05:50:37 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #3)
> >- Do nothing and blame Clementine since that's where this should be addressed
> 
> Yes please. Even if we change you still have a bug in the app - if we
> deviate from the spec you end up with apps coding for that.

That's not how you do this. You should fix QSystemTray first, patch every possible distro and only THEN break the UX when the impact is minimal. I do not see how the issue is "resolved" for now

Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2020-08-04 08:34:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 422616 ***