Bug 445438

Summary: If plasmashell has been restarted in a session, the widget explorer does not open at all
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Firlaev-Hans <firlaevhans.fiete>
Component: Widget ExplorerAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bugseforuns
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.23.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Firlaev-Hans 2021-11-13 18:07:09 UTC
SUMMARY
The widget explorer sidebar simply will not open if you have restarted plasmashell with plasmashell --replace. Clicking "Add widgets" in a panel's or desktop's right click menu or using the keyboard shortcut does nothing at all in that case. You have to log out and log back in again to be able to open it again.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. In a fresh Plasma session, open the widget explorer sidebar: It works as expected
2. Now run "plasmashell --replace" in KRunner or the terminal
3. Try to open the widget explorer again

OBSERVED RESULT
The widget explorer won't open after restarting plasmashell until you log out and log back in again or reboot

EXPECTED RESULT
The widget explorer should open normally even after plasmashell has been restarted

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.16-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Both X11 and Wayland
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2021-11-14 01:28:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 439159 ***