SUMMARY Opening new files through dolphin does not raise an already opened kate window an wayland STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a file in kate 2. Minimize kate 3. Open another file though dolphin OBSERVED RESULT Nothing (appears) to happen. When checking kate the files has opened in the background EXPECTED RESULT Is raised to the front and un-minimized to present the opened file SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-051100rc6-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15,1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR
This is a known issue on Wayland due to the lack of a cross-compositor activation protocol. Thankfully it's being worked on! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 424795 ***