Bug 489716

Summary:	Add title clip & Create animation greyed out when starting the program for the first time
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	Tobias Bora <tobias.bora>
Component:	Title Clips & Subtitles	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	aristsakas, luzpaz
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.05.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486114
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tobias Bora 2024-07-04 08:13:41 UTC

SUMMARY

We realized that when it is the first time that we run Kdenlive (or after an upgrade), the "Add title clip" and "Create animation" are greyed out. Restarting the app solves this.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. `rm ~/.config/kdenlive*`
2. `kdenlive`
3. Go to the menu to add a title clip

OBSERVED RESULT

Impossible to add a title clip or an animation (greyed out), works after a restart.

EXPECTED RESULT

I expect to be able to add a title clip without restarting kdenlive.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: NixOS 24.05
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.1.80 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8365U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 15.5 Gio of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Discussed in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/209941#issuecomment-2203040534 for screenshots

Might be related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389794

Comment 1 luzpaz 2026-02-03 16:10:11 UTC

I can't seem to reproduce this on
Kdenlive: 25.12.1
Kdenlive
MLT: 7.36.1
FFmpeg
KDE Frameworks: 6.22.0
Qt: Using 6.10.1 and built against 6.10.1
Manjaro Linux (Wayland)
Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
Kernel: linux 6.6.122-1-MANJARO

Can you try to reproduce on latest 25.12.1 ?

Can you also reproduce on AppImage or Flatpak ? (since you're using a downstream packaging build)