Bug 431315

Summary: Searching for "Switch user" finds an item called "New Session"
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: generalAssignee: Alexander Lohnau <alexander.lohnau>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: justin.zobel, kde, mikel5764, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.20.90   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425970
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.25
Attachments: Wrong item found

Description Nate Graham 2021-01-08 15:04:05 UTC
This is with the new Plasma 5.21 Kickoff. See attached screenshot.

Activating the item does have the same effect as "switch user", but it shows a weird dialog box.
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2021-01-14 03:03:06 UTC
No screenshot attached. :)
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-01-14 05:03:49 UTC
Created attachment 134827 [details]
Wrong item found

Derp
Comment 3 Mikel Johnson 2021-01-25 07:39:59 UTC
actually this is a general krunner problem
Comment 4 Alexander Lohnau 2021-01-25 07:49:15 UTC
bool switchUser = listAll || term.compare(i18n("switch user"), Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0 || term.compare(i18n("new session"), Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0;

    if (switchUser && KAuthorized::authorizeAction(QStringLiteral("start_new_session")) && dm.isSwitchable() && dm.numReserve() >= 0) {
        Plasma::QueryMatch match(this);
        match.setType(Plasma::QueryMatch::ExactMatch);
        match.setIconName(QStringLiteral("system-switch-user"));
        match.setText(i18n("New Session"));
        matches << match;
    }


This seems intentional and has been the case since the initial import in 2014, @d_ed is there a rationale behind this? Like that switching users would in this case create a new session?
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-01-25 15:30:18 UTC
Seems like the intention was to match SDDM's prior behavior of creating new sessions by default instead of switching to a new one. However that default setting has since been changed, so these are now out of sync. And I think SDDM handles this itself right now, so the manual workaround is no longer needed.

(That's as I understand it at least).
Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2022-01-30 19:35:23 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1423
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-01-31 18:02:26 UTC
Git commit c65938f36c715771bd8deebb22dde811a6e47bd7 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Alexander Lohnau.
Committed on 31/01/2022 at 18:01.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

sessionrunner: Change text from "New Session" to "Switch User"

This is how we call it since ~2016.

Because of the string changes, it can not get cherry-picked to stable.

M  +1    -1    runners/sessions/sessionrunner.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/c65938f36c715771bd8deebb22dde811a6e47bd7