Bug 510987

Summary: 6.4.5's Application Launcher's name-beside-avatar's tooltip constantly appears and disappears when hovered over until an application is invoked
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell <4wy78uwh>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: mao492479407, mikel5764, nate, noahadvs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: A Demonstrative Screencast

Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-10-24 00:07:13 UTC 
Created attachment 186063 [details]
A Demonstrative Screencast

# SUMMARY

Application Launcher's name-beside-avatar's tooltip constantly appears and disappears when hovered over until an application is invoked. It appears to occur when the context menu attempts to invoke atop the user's username + hostname (depending upon its state).

# STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Invoke the tooltip, by hovering the mouse above.

# OBSERVED RESULT

Randomly, the tooltip constantly appears and disappears when hovered over until an application is invoked. Thereafter, it operates as expected. Moving the mouse upward until it's at the border of where it is invocable remediates it until the mouse is brought down again.

https://youtu.be/W4XN57-apWU provides an example.

# EXPECTED RESULT

It should remain visible whilst the mouse is hovered above it.

# SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

> ~~~
> Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
> KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
> Qt Version: 6.9.2
> Kernel Version: 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: Wayland
> Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700
> Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
> ~~~

# ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Discovered when capturing https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=186061&action=edit.
Comment 1 mao492479407 2025-10-24 04:07:35 UTC 
Similar issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510860
Comment 2 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-10-24 09:17:47 UTC 
(In reply to mao492479407 from comment #1)

> Similar issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510860

Thanks! That's identical behaviour, merely in another location.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-24 17:52:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 510860 ***