Bug 500674

Summary:	Network manager intermittent large visual offset / distance between networks when connecting
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Daniel Duris <kdebugs>
Component:	Networks widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	john.kizer, kdedev, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	bug screenshot large whitespace between networks

Description Daniel Duris 2025-02-24 15:20:57 UTC

Created attachment 178812 [details]
bug screenshot

SUMMARY
Network manager shows large distance between current network and other networks while connecting

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on network to connect (preferably some slow VPN, so it takes longer to demonstrate)
2. Large offset shown

OBSERVED RESULT
Large offset shown

EXPECTED RESULT
No offset shown, standard list display as before

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 6.3
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-17-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Possibly related to (in use of same display components that are buggy?):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448833

Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-02-28 17:47:21 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this on git-master, Neon Testing or Neon User Edition
Leaving open in case someone else can.

Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-03-16 02:17:21 UTC

Hi - I can't reproduce on Fedora KDE 41 - just to double-check, does this behavior still occur with Plasma 6.3.3?

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2025-03-31 03:46:50 UTC

🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

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Comment 4 Daniel Duris 2025-03-31 08:48:42 UTC

(In reply to Bug Janitor Service from comment #3)
> 🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15
> days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to
> REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be
> automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.
> 
> For more information about our bug triaging procedures, please read
> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging.
> 
> Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

I haven't seen this for a while. I'll report back if encountered again.

Comment 5 TraceyC 2025-03-31 19:37:25 UTC

Thanks!

Comment 6 Daniel Duris 2025-04-06 21:02:29 UTC

OK, it happened again today< I am going to post a screenshot.

Operating System: KDE neon 6.3
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-21-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 7 Daniel Duris 2025-04-06 21:03:39 UTC

Created attachment 180047 [details]
large whitespace between networks

It seems to happen with OpenVPN networks only - it happened after a disconnect from a VPN.

Comment 8 TraceyC 2025-04-07 18:48:11 UTC

Thanks for the screenshot. I'll let the folks more experienced with this UI take it from here.

I set the version back to what it had been. Please don't change this. See the field descriptions here for an explanation
https://bugs.kde.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-08-13 22:23:01 UTC

This is fixed in Plasma 6.4 with a change to how the sections are separated. The prior approach was rather hacky and I can see how it might have produced this effect from time to time. The new code can't have the same issue.