Bug 498768

Summary:	No insertion point shown before first character on a line
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	Damglador <vse.stopchanskyi>
Component:	notes	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdedev, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Damglador 2025-01-16 23:53:50 UTC

SUMMARY
So normally a note widget have a pointer showing where you type, if the widget is placed on desktop it works perfectly fine, but I have one in my panel and if I open the note. In the note on my panel, pointer is invisible if its at the beginning of a line, that also means it's invisible on empty lines

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Put a note widget in a panel
2. Open the note
3. See that there's no pointer
4. Type a Space or a character
5. Move the pointer to the beginning of the line

OBSERVED RESULT
Pointer disappears if there is no character before it

EXPECTED RESULT
Pointer should always be visible

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
My note in the panel is black, but changing color doesn't solve the issue

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-01-17 15:37:25 UTC

Does the insertion point appear when you type something? If so, this is Bug 489593.

Comment 2 Damglador 2025-01-17 20:42:13 UTC

Yes. But the bug is not "it's invisible before anything is typed" though I thought so as well at first, but after testing it a bit more, it always becomes invisible at the beginning of a line, even if it has text. So for example 
| <- pointer
|Text <- in this case it will also be invisible

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-01-21 19:49:44 UTC

Ah, I can reproduce that.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-03-04 22:02:18 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this anymore with current git master; looks like it got fixed somewhere.

Comment 5 Damglador 2025-03-17 20:51:28 UTC

Should I expect it to be fixed in Plasma 6.3.3?

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2025-03-17 20:59:55 UTC

You should expect it to be fixed in Plasma 6.4.0. It *might* have been fixed in an earlier release as well.

Comment 7 Damglador 2025-03-17 21:54:19 UTC

Gud, I'll wait and hopefully won't be able to reproduce the bug there.

Comment 8 Damglador 2025-06-19 15:37:38 UTC

I can still reproduce it on Plasma 6.4.0

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-06-25 21:55:40 UTC

Hmm, it's still working for me :/

Comment 10 TraceyC 2025-06-26 00:03:07 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this on git-master or Fedora 42 with Plasma 6.4.0

Comment 11 Damglador 2025-06-26 10:50:05 UTC

Weird. I'll try checking on a clean user/install

Comment 12 TraceyC 2025-06-26 17:27:09 UTC

Thanks!

Comment 13 Damglador 2025-06-28 12:06:11 UTC

Okay, I don't know how that works, but my old note widget is still missing the pointer, yet new note widgets have it. Hopefully the issue doesn't come back, and if it does, I'll try to find why. Thanks for your time.