Bug 454294

Summary: Long-pressing meta and releasing it makes Kickoff not vanish in the VD previews
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: postix <postix>
Component: effects-overviewAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: minor CC: nate, oded, postix
Priority: NOR    
Version: git master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481501
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Description postix 2022-05-23 19:25:13 UTC 
SUMMARY

Wayland 
commit: f64214e8b3254b658beb5e9ee31884c66611fde7

1) Open the overview effect (ctrl+w)
2) press meta short: Kickoff opens
3) press meta short: Kick off closes

4) press meta short
5) press meta long (hold it down for 1-2 seconds): Kickoff closes 
6) release meta: Kickoff opens

This is different to what I experience on the desktop and what I'd expect: Hitting meta acts on the desktop always like a toggle button, no matter how long it gets pressed down.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-05-24 17:40:56 UTC 
Can reproduce.
Comment 2 Oded Arbel 2023-05-22 09:18:26 UTC 
The problem appears to be that while the overview effect is open, Kickoff closes on META press instead of no META release. Its not like that normally - Kickoff both opens and closes on META release, which is what you need to actually have META shortcuts running: open Kickoff, then press META+W - overview opens, instead of Kickoff closing and eating the META key (see bug #464805 for how it shouldn't work).

My question is why would Kickoff even open in the overview effect at all: it is almost not visible, let alone useful - it just shows in the small desktop previews. I would think that pressing META while in overview would escape out of overview (without changing the active window) before opening Kickoff.
Comment 3 postix 2024-02-25 14:42:28 UTC 
Can still confirm in Plasma 6.0.0 (Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20240225.n.0)
Comment 4 postix 2024-02-25 14:43:15 UTC 
Is it actually intentional, that Meta opens Kickoff in the Overview at all?