When opening a mail attachment that is e.g. xlsx, odt, ... which then opens LibreOffice, the KMail UI freezes until LibreOffice is closed again. This also happens with PDF attachments and the KF5 version of Okular. (compiled git sources from yesterday) Reproducible: Always
I confirm it. I don't have idea yet.
I can also confirm this. Additionally, I get an error dialog after closing LibreOffice with the title "Sorry" and the message text: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kioexec'".
Maybe this bug's status could be changed to "CONFIRMED" if also Laurent was able to reproduce it?
Confirmed. This happens with all attachments. The attachment opens, the UI is blocked. After closing the attachment the error message "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/kioexec'" is displayed.
Git commit ca27705bd161a64a6aa86c0c844036143eea24fb by Montel Laurent. Committed on 14/09/2015 at 11:50. Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'Applications/15.08'. Fix Bug 350737 - KMail/KF5 Blocking UI Call when Opening ODF Mail Attachement FIXED-IN: 15.08.2 M +1 -3 messageviewer/viewer/viewer_p.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/ca27705bd161a64a6aa86c0c844036143eea24fb
Thanks, works! Programs started by kMail to open attachments now display their window behind the kMail main window - can this have something to do with the way the application is invoked? Before, the viewer windows was displayed in front of the (blocked) kMail window.
@Gunter: at least I cannot reproduce this behavior (invoked application behind kmail main window) on my system and the patch's changes should not cause such a behavior. If the problem remains, please open a new bug report. Otherwise, your issue might be overlooked, here at the backlog of a fixed bug report. Cheers, Andreas