Version: (using KDE 4.2.96) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages When I upload a file e.g. to a FTP server with Konqueror or even with Dolphin I get a status message and a progress bar in the system tray. bit there is no way to stop this transaction anymore. This is kind of risky. Also copying files on the hard drive cannot be interrupted by some X, pause, or stop symbol. Is this some misconfiguration at my side or did you really forgot to implement an interrupt? Thanks Andreas
Well, the stop/pause buttons do work here, so you've encountered some bug. Could you try running plasma-desktop from konsole and paste any debug output you might get after pressing the stop button?
Created attachment 35319 [details] No stop button I have no stop button at all - see the screenshot. When I drag a file from the web (with Konqueror) to my local file system (to Dolphin e.g.) then the system tray downloads something but I have NO chance to interrupt. Teere is no more detail - doesn't matter if I click the system tray "i" symbol or not. I upgraded from 4.2 to 4.3-beta1 and I also had another plasma bug which disappeared when I removed a special config file. Maybe this is a similar bug (I just have not the correct updated config files maybe because I switched too early). Which config files are affected by the download-progress-plasmoid?
Ah, I see the problem now. The progress bar you see by default shows the total progress of all the running jobs. This way you can see a quick overview which doesn't take in too much space. You can collapse and expand this group to show individual jobs, each individual job has a stop and pause button, and, this setting is also remembered between plasma sessions, so if you always want to see all the jobs you expand that group once, and you'll be able to. The problem however, is that you're using a theme that doesn't supply the required icon. And the fallback mechanism to the default theme doesn't work here because there's a bunch of icons in a single file (fallback to default works for files that are missing, not for elements in files), and the theme you're using does supply some of them. So you can't see the expand collapse icon here. Indeed this fallback mechanism should be improved, but that's kind of a different bug then this one. Another improvement would be to add a stop/pause all button in that group. I think the first problem could be considered a bug, I'll look into how easy it is to fix for 4.3.1 hopefully.
OK, I understand. Stupid bug. But now listen what is more stupid :-) I changed my desktop theme to something else and suddenly I can open up the details in the summary as you told me (nice feature!). I didn't like the theme and switched back to my previous theme and NOW: The button is visible, too. I just had to change the theme once. Internal software behavior can be so tricky sometimes.... I don't know if my bug report is worth it to solve this tiny problem. If it's easy to find it would protect some others maybe not to get stuck in the same bug behavior...
Today I rebooted my KDE and the buttons are invisible again. Seems like the Silicon desktop theme just "borrows" the arrow icon from a previous theme but when it is the first theme which is loaded there is no such arrow to expand or collapse. But when you know where to click, it still works. But I think there should be a solution because KDE can never prevent all theme creators against not forgetting one simple icon to include in the theme and afterwards you have lack of usability in KDE. There should always be default icons for everything when the theme doesn't own one.
I'm not totaly sure about the status of this bug in kde 4.3
It is kind of fixed. The reason was another desktop style I used. One which was shipped with KDE 4.3. Some themes doesn't offer the "show details" icon in the system tray. Maybe a default icon should be shown if the theme doesn't offer a button.