Bug 479362

Summary:	Flatpak apps' notifications are no longer interactive
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Naxdy <xnaxdy>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.10
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	NixOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Naxdy 2024-01-03 17:02:15 UTC

SUMMARY
Since at least 5.27.10, certain Electron apps' notifications are no longer interactive. For example, usually when e.g. Discord sends a notification (due to message received), that notification popup is clickable and causes Discord to navigate to the message sent. However, this is no longer the case, and clicking the notification does nothing.

Same goes for Slack. However, Slack notifications also exhibit the behavior that the app icon has disappeared, and in its place is the regular KDE/Plasma icon.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Receive a notification from an affected Electron app (Discord, Slack, perhaps others)
2. Click the notification popup as it appears

OBSERVED RESULT
Notification popup disappears

EXPECTED RESULT
Notification popup disappears *and* the app responds to the popup having been clicked (response may vary, but is commonly navigation to the part of the app that initiated the notification)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: NixOS Unstable
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Slack and Discord stopped working at different times for me, so this *may* be a downstream issue. Though I run both in flatpak, so who knows. Would be great if someone could confirm if any work was done on the KDE side of things the past couple minor versions.

Comment 1 Naxdy 2024-01-16 11:07:26 UTC

Update: Element is also affected by this, so I'm leaning towards this being an issue that affects all Electron apps.

Since it also affects apps with older Electron versions that were working before (like Discord), I'm strongly leaning towards something on the KDE side having broken this recently.

Comment 2 Naxdy 2024-01-18 20:39:00 UTC

Another update: Seems that this is exclusive to Flatpak apps. When I install these apps' native counterpart, notifications appear to work correctly and are interactive. I do have desktop portals installed and configured correctly. I'm assuming an update of some flatpak runtime triggered this, as if I rollback my main system installation (including flatpak itself, but not the flatpaks or runtimes) to a few months back, the issue persists.

Comment 3 Naxdy 2024-01-22 18:16:16 UTC

Yeah, pretty confident to label this an issue with the flatpak versions or flatpak itself. System rollback preserves the issue, so pretty confident nothing on KDE side messed this up. Perhaps there's something KDE can do to fix this? Not sure. Either way, I just moved to the native versions of these apps to restore full functionality.