Bug 438392

Summary: Pressing any key while Kickoff is open results in the selection marker(s) becoming dimmed
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Alexander M. <apmichalopoulos>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: mikel5764, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.22.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.23
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alexander M. 2021-06-10 08:59:10 UTC
SUMMARY
When Kickoff is opened, if you press pretty much any navigational (e.g. arrows or Tab) or modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Caps) then the selection marker(s) will become dimmed.

The behavior is somewhat unpredictable, in that either one or both of the selection markers (left pane and right pane) can be dimmed; and they can stay dimmed until the selection marker is forced to refresh by changing the category or hovering the mouse over an app, or they can become undimmed on their own; and they can stay dimmed, or they can become undimmed if you move the mouse, or they can flicker between dimmed and undimmed seemingly on their own (this only happened one time).

This happens both with the default Breeze theme and with custom themes.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Launch Kickoff
2. Press any of the aforementioned keys (Ctrl, Alt, Caps, Tab, arrow keys)

OBSERVED RESULT
One or both of the selection markers become dimmed.

EXPECTED RESULT
The selection markers should not become dimmed.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82
Qt Version: 5.15.2 + KDE patches

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
1. I'm on Nvidia.
2. With Tab you need to press it twice to produce the issue (the first press will just select the Settings cog button to the right).
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-10 17:02:48 UTC
Can confirm.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-07-23 16:24:52 UTC
Fixed with the code rewrite in Plasma 5.23!