DESCRIPTION: Task Manager displays starting indicator (spinning circle) when application launcher is clicked, but for some applications with pinned launchers (e.g. Kate) there’s no starting indicator. REPRODUCIBLE: Always STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1) Pin the Kate editor launcher to the Task Manger widget 2) Click the Kate launcher ACTUAL RESULTS: Kate editor is started but spinning indicator is not displayed. EXPECTED RESULTS: The spinning indicator is displayed like for many other applications. NOTE: The starting indicator is displayed if a user runs the Kate editor using the Application Launcher, the issue exists only for pinned icons. ENVIRONMENT: Platform: KDE Neon KDE Plasma Version: 5.10.2 KDE Framework Version: 5.35.0 Qt Version: 5.9.0
I can confirm. Kate does not yield a startup task (I do get a bouncing cursor, though) when run through a pinned launcher, while e.g. Dolphin does. It works fine when started from Kickoff or KRunner.
Yeah, reproduced this as well yesterday. Looking into it.
Git commit d1b5447f57e4c233523dd3fc0e12f4c863957f56 by Eike Hein. Committed on 23/06/2017 at 10:13. Pushed by hein into branch 'Plasma/5.10'. Use KRun::runApplication, add missing KActivities::notifyAccessed calls. Summary: Otherwise we: * ... don't get startup notifications. * ... don't contribute data to recent/most used apps. This is a surprisingly large oversight. Reviewers: #plasma Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6354 M +22 -5 libtaskmanager/launchertasksmodel.cpp https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/d1b5447f57e4c233523dd3fc0e12f4c863957f56