pretty self explanatory. set a panel on auto-hide, pop it up by moving the cursor on the rim, right-click the panel, then click on something that is not the menu and not the panel. the panel then stays open till you move the cursor on the panel and move it out again Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set a panel on auto-hide 2. pop it up by moving the cursor on the rim of the panel 3. right-click the panel to open the menu 4. close the menu by clicking somewhere that is not the menu and not the panel Actual Results: the panel stays open when it shouldn't Expected Results: the panel should close as soon as the menu closes
See also Bug 344205 - except this one's the other way round.
Workaround: With plasma 5.8.6 (on openSUSE 42.2) I found that certain sequences of focus changes resolve this situation. The easiest is 1) After a panel lost its auto-hide, give focus to it (e.g by clicking) 2) Give focus to any other open window (or panel) Doing this the other way round also works.
Git commit f3dcff28b8fbc635467252706641c9d37f094090 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 07/07/2017 at 11:26. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. [Containment Interface] Keep containment in RequiresAttentionStatus while context menu is open This ensures the panel does not auto-hide then. It also forces a re-evaluation of auto-hide status when the menu closes, so even if we mess up with mouse grabbing, it should more reliably auto-hide afterwards. Related: bug 344205 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6527 M +8 -0 src/scriptengines/qml/plasmoid/containmentinterface.cpp https://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/f3dcff28b8fbc635467252706641c9d37f094090
Git commit 2d8b4e1dec26c5976dd75c238c3ae8a4700b8dd9 by David Edmundson. Committed on 12/07/2017 at 13:50. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'master'. Don't autohide panel if a child window is open Summary: This is meant as a more generic fix for the autohide panels, actually looking to see what transient windows we have open. The problem with the current fixes (D6555) being posted is that we potentially get attentionStatus in a corrupt status as we cache the value but it might change externally whilst that window is open. Also saves duplicating code in a bunch of places. Test Plan: Set autohide Opened a context menu in task manager didn't autohide, till I closed it Closing menu whilst keeping mouse in the panel doesn't auto hide it until we move out after. Hovering over TM tooltip keeps autohide from closing (another fix) Related: bug 352459, bug 347855 Reviewers: #plasma, broulik Reviewed By: #plasma, broulik Subscribers: broulik, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6577 M +10 -0 shell/panelview.cpp M +1 -0 shell/panelview.h https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/2d8b4e1dec26c5976dd75c238c3ae8a4700b8dd9