unable to create new activities with the kcm user interface Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "kcmshell5 kcm_activities" 2. click on "Create Activity" Actual Results: the "Create New Activity" window appear behind the kcm_activities main window and you can't interact with it (so you can't create the new activity) Expected Results: "Create New Activity" should open on top of the main window and you must be able to interact with it "kcmshell5 kcm_activities" prints those two errors immediately after it is opened: file:///usr/share/kf5/kactivitymanagerd/workspace/settings//qml/privacyTab/BlacklistApplicationView.qml:28:5: QML Flow: Binding loop detected for property "width" file:///usr/share/kf5/kactivitymanagerd/workspace/settings//qml/privacyTab/BlacklistApplicationView.qml:28:5: QML Flow: Binding loop detected for property "width" after clicking on "Create Activity" also those errors appears: QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method GeneralTab_QMLTYPE_106::load() file:///usr/share/kf5/kactivitymanagerd/workspace/settings//qml/activityDialog/OtherTab.qml:33: ReferenceError: content is not defined file:///usr/share/kf5/kactivitymanagerd/workspace/settings//qml/activityDialog/OtherTab.qml:32: ReferenceError: content is not defined QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method OtherTab_QMLTYPE_154::load() The window to edit an existing activity work as expected (it seems to be the same window so I assume that the code is shared). This is the bug report on Fedora's bug tracker https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311535
I can confirm this testing on f24/x86_64 with plasma-5.6.3 + kf5-kactivities-5.21.0
Does this button work in the activity switcher? (Meta + q by default) Can you test with Plasma 5.7.2 (or older 5.7) since this seems like a problem in the installation/packages related to the repository transition we had for 5.6.
still present in plasma 5.7.1. I will test it again when packages for plasma 5.7.2 will appear in the repositories. The button works in the activity switcher and also under system settings->desktop behaviour->activities
Wait - activity switcher *and* system settings work, but kcmshell does not? That is strange for a few reasons: - The code is shared between all three - The code is the same for system settings and kcmshell - that is, both load exactly the same dialogue. Is there a live ISO with all the packages updated where I could test this?
yes only kcmshell doesn't work. There is only this one https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html but it's quite old as you can see here http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Spins/x86_64/iso/. I'm downloading it to see if the bug is present (it should be there in principle, since it's newer than my first post)
Thanks for being an active bug reporter :)
yes you can use that live image to reproduce it
I forgot to reply - the activity creation dialogue opens, but it does not go above the main kcmshell window. There was a bug in kcmshell which was fixed some time ago (can't remember whether the fix is in 5.7 or it will be released with 5.8).
it's fixed on 5.7.5, I didn't test in 5.7.4, but I'm quite sure that I've tested it on 5.7.3 and it was not fixed. So the fix is either in 5.7.4 or in 5.7.5. Thanks