Bug 446826

Summary:	Modal dialog for naming pasted clipboard content disables Plasma while open
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	medin <med.medin.2014>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bednarczyk.pawel, bugseforuns, iodreamify, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	5.97.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407660
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description medin 2021-12-11 11:54:55 UTC

When you copy some text then go to an empty region in desktop and right click and select "Paste Clipboard Contents", a popup window will appear to enter a suitable filename for the file that will contain copied data, at this stage if you try to click on any launcher or panel or system tray item or desktop item it will not work and your are blocked, so any one (especially disabled people that type text using only mouse) who use virtual clipboard from apps launcher or system tray is totally blocked at this step.
The worst case is when you minimize this naming popup then it's impossible to make it reappear again because the Task Manager in the panel is not accessible (the only trick is to us Alt+Tab to recover it).

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-12-14 18:32:09 UTC

Yes, this dialog is modal so it disables its parent window while it's visible. That parent is plasma, so boom, plasma becomes disabled.

We would need to give it a different parent window, I suppose.

Comment 2 iodreamify 2022-09-04 20:18:27 UTC

Another window where this happens is the clipboard applet's Actions Configuration window. If you click on Add Action a modal window pops up and Plasmashell's panel, desktop and kickoff are all frozen until it is closed. 

Reddit post with recording: https://v.redd.it/f76bt5ecqul91

Comment 3 Pawel 2022-09-04 20:46:56 UTC

(In reply to iodreamify from comment #2)
> Another window where this happens is the clipboard applet's Actions
> Configuration window. If you click on Add Action a modal window pops up and
> Plasmashell's panel, desktop and kickoff are all frozen until it is closed. 
> 
> Reddit post with recording: https://v.redd.it/f76bt5ecqul91

I can repro on Wayland as well.

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.19.6-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2022-09-05 12:20:07 UTC

Possibly this bug is a duplicate of bug 407660

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-09-09 17:25:21 UTC

Same issue, but it will have to be fixed in a different way. I believe the fix will need to be in KIO though, so moving this there.