Bug 510282

When you say "the progress bar", are you referring to "tasks" that appears when you initiate a download in discover?

I cannot reproduce this. Started a download of GIMP in discover. Tasks appears with the progress bar and does not disappear until the download is finished.

Are you familiar with the KDE app "Spectacle"? Could you attach a short screen recording showing this behaviour?

Thanks!

Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-09-20
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 2 × Intel® Pentium® 3805U @ 1.90GHz
Memory: 4 GiB of RAM (3.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 80EW
System Version: Lenovo B50-80

(In reply to john.liptrot from comment #1)
> When you say "the progress bar", are you referring to "tasks" that appears
> when you initiate a download in discover?
> 
> I cannot reproduce this. Started a download of GIMP in discover. Tasks
> appears with the progress bar and does not disappear until the download is
> finished.
> 
> Are you familiar with the KDE app "Spectacle"? Could you attach a short
> screen recording showing this behaviour?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-09-20
> KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
> Qt Version: 6.9.2
> Kernel Version: 6.16.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: Wayland
> Processors: 2 × Intel® Pentium® 3805U @ 1.90GHz
> Memory: 4 GiB of RAM (3.7 GiB usable)
> Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics
> Manufacturer: LENOVO
> Product Name: 80EW
> System Version: Lenovo B50-80

Thank you for your reply. Yes I do refer to "Tasks" section that appears on the bottom left when you initiate an update. However the issue is only when doing an update, not when simply installing an app. My system is all up to date right now but I'll post a recording next time there is an update (indeed very familiar with Spectacle 🙂). It "seems" like (I'm not entirely sure) the section disappear after the download is done instead of lasting for the the full download + install.

Btw I can also reproduce this on another machine running freshly installed Fedora 43 (KDE) beta.

A screen recording would be helpful, yeah.

Created attachment 185597 [details]
Screencast of the issue

Find a screen recording attached. As you can see, as I launch the update the Task bar appears with the % progress indicator, then disappear, but the update is still going and completes fine (I didn't record until it completes otherwise it'd make the file big...and would be quite boring 😅). In fact you can still see the overall progress happening in the green indicator of the Task Manager Icon.

I suspect that I may know what's going on here: at a certain point, there are 0 tasks ongoing for some reason, so the logic to hide the progress indicator gets triggered, resulting in an awkward effect. We should probably also always keep it visible if updates are in progress, even if there are no active tasks (maybe they got queued for some reason).

Just to add to this, I've just checked today and when click on Tasks right after launching an update, the Task progression pop up shows up and from their I can follow the full progression, and I can see that the Tasks progress indicator on the bottom left of discover disappears once download phase is finished and doesn't show progress of the installation phase (the pop up stays up though). I hope this helps.

I noticed the same issue on both Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed. I don't get any progress bar anymore, which makes me think the update process froze while it's in fact working silently in the background without user feedback. This bug appeared in Plasma 6.4, it was working fine in 6.3.