Bug 443131 - When there's more than one Kickoff, clicking on the old one causes search to be broken until you search with the new one
Summary: When there's more than one Kickoff, clicking on the old one causes search to ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) (show other bugs)
Version: 5.22.90
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: VHI minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
URL:
Keywords: regression
: 444040 444132 444934 445371 445910 446310 446871 446983 447262 447313 448640 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2021-09-29 18:59 UTC by Claudio
Modified: 2022-01-30 15:57 UTC (History)
29 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 5.23.5
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Description Claudio 2021-09-29 18:59:44 UTC
SUMMARY
When having a second Kickoff Applet either on the same or another panel (e.g. on a second screen), only the last added kickoff has a working search functionality.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add second kickoff applet to your panel
2. Open first kickoff and start typing to trigger the search

OBSERVED RESULT
absolutely nothing happens

EXPECTED RESULT
the search is carried out as expected

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 580 Series

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The last added kickoff works as expected.
When opening the last added kickoff after a non-working search in the first added kickoff, the search bar is filled with the searched term and the results are being displayed.
If you try the search on the non working kickoff multiple times, the search terms are concatenated in the search field of the working kickoff.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-09-30 15:34:45 UTC
Can reproduce, but with the following quirk: once I search once with the newly-added Kickoff, it starts working with the old one.
Comment 2 ecc_2000 2021-10-19 19:08:06 UTC
This bug also appeared for me after updating to 5.23.1. On my three monitor setup, only one Kickoff works correctly (not my primary monitor though...). What I noticed is that when I search in the working Kickoff applet, the others sometimes display its search results. They also do not allow me to enter text into the search box just by typing with an open Kickoff, requiring me to click the search box first.

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.12-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon ™ R9 380 Series
Comment 3 Claudio 2021-10-19 19:19:24 UTC
*** Bug 444040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Federico Cerutti 2021-10-21 10:46:03 UTC
I'm facing the same issue with plasmashell 5.23.1 and a dual display setup. I have "solved" the issue using the "Application Launcher" widget on the laptop and "Application Dashboard" on the external display.
I think this might be somehow related to the keyboard shortcut feature since when I tried to delete both the Launchers, when I tried to assign the Alt-F1 shortcut to both of them I was forced to override the previous assignation. I'm not sure but this was not the case before this update, as far as I recall.
Federico
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-11-08 19:11:40 UTC
*** Bug 444934 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2021-11-08 19:12:24 UTC
Noah, can you take a look into this? It seems to be a regression in 5.23.
Comment 7 Noah Davis 2021-11-08 19:57:43 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> Noah, can you take a look into this? It seems to be a regression in 5.23.

yes, I was planning to. I wonder if each instance of Kickoff shares the same singleton, but not the same models?
Comment 8 Nico Lynzaad 2021-11-08 20:05:54 UTC
Hi, 

I did a fairly detailed comment on issue 444132 that seems to be a duplicate of this. Don't know enough of QT development to say for sure but from the testing it definitely seems to be sharing the same singleton.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2021-11-12 22:58:05 UTC
*** Bug 445371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Nate Graham 2021-11-21 17:27:04 UTC
*** Bug 444132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 alkl58 2021-11-23 15:11:30 UTC
Maybe this info might help identifying the issue:
Downgrading the Kickoff menu by placing an older version inside "~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/" solves the issue.
See my Comment on Manjaro Forum: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-search-results-in-application-launcher/91500/6

I am not sure how the system works, however I have two theories:
1. The regression only happened in the kickoff applet
2. The regression is somewhere else and using a "custom" (in this case "older") applet uses a different api(?) interface  (which I doubt)
Comment 12 Nate Graham 2021-11-23 17:56:27 UTC
*** Bug 445910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 alkl58 2021-11-25 14:44:49 UTC
After testing different Git versions, I can confirm that the regression happened in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/9d9c4f169ed424e976636a6d5fa23c7a1e40576b

So far the only obvious error message I see is: 
"file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/ApplicationsPage.qml:118: TypeError: Cannot read property 'forceActiveFocus' of null"
Comment 14 Florian Hänel 2021-12-01 11:02:44 UTC
I can reproduce this on

Operating System: Kubuntu 21.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-21-lowlatency (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/PCIe/SSE2
Comment 15 R. Arp 2021-12-01 19:10:57 UTC
I can reproduce this as well.
On my dual monitor setup, I worked around it by removing the complete control panel from the 2nd monitor and adding a new, blank panel which I populated with the desired widgets, sans kickoff. Simply removing kickoff from the 2nd monitor didn't have any effect.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.15.2-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Comment 16 Nate Graham 2021-12-01 20:31:39 UTC
*** Bug 446310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 David Edmundson 2021-12-11 22:08:57 UTC
Can the person who identified the commit please remove:

`pragma Singleton`
from ActionMenu.qml and confirm that it now behaves as expected.
Comment 18 alkl58 2021-12-11 22:57:30 UTC
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #17)
> Can the person who identified the commit please remove:
> 
> `pragma Singleton`
> from ActionMenu.qml and confirm that it now behaves as expected.

Changing that on the Plasmoid shipped with my Distro, the plasmashell refuses to load (kstart5 plasmashell) with the message: "QQmlComponent: Component is not ready"

Additionally I tested the latest git version as of writing (placed it under local/share...) with the same broken search behavior, as well removing the line caused in plasmashell not starting.

However, if I delete the line and remove / add the applet manually, it will show the launcher, however the same broken search issue exists. 

The easiest way to tell if it's broken:
1. Remove any other Kick off Applet. 
2. Add two Kickoff Applets to the Taskbar.
3. Start searching with the first one, by clicking on the icon and start typing (results show as expected), close it by clicking somewhere else.
4. Start searching with the second one, by clicking on the icon and start typing (results show as expected), close it by clicking somewhere else.
5. Try to search with the first applet, by clicking on the icon and start typing. No Results will show. Opening the second applet, you will see the just typed stuff from the first applet. The first applet now also won't display anything from the search, even if the text is cleared from the second kickoff applet.
Comment 19 alkl58 2021-12-12 20:08:46 UTC
Note that I am not familiar with how Qt / Singletons work, however coming from a developers perspective I can roughly tell what's happening by observing the behavior. (So take the following with a grain of salt)

The current behavior from the Application Launcher is to bind the search item to the content area. For this, user input (keyboard) is being delegated to that search item and search result content is being displayed.

Adding a second Application Launcher, which is a different object, now maybe restores the binding between itself and the existing search item from the first Application Launcher.
Now user input from the first Application Launcher seems to be delegated to the search item, which is now bound to the second Application Launcher. 
This results in the observed behavior, that writing something in the first Application Launcher is not seen there, yet visible in the second Application Launcher.

The search object is not bound to the first launcher anymore, that's why we see the message: "ApplicationsPage.qml:118: TypeError: Cannot read property 'forceActiveFocus' of null".

It could also be, that it's some issue with the search bar in Header.qml or it could be that only one global searchView is being created.

Of course, this can be all wrong, but I think it might be something related.

Sorry for the wall of text.
Comment 20 Bug Janitor Service 2021-12-13 10:34:47 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/744
Comment 21 alkl58 2021-12-13 10:49:15 UTC
(In reply to Bug Janitor Service from comment #20)
> A possibly relevant merge request was started @
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/744

Seems to fix the issue - can confirm working. 

Thank you very much @Noah Davis!
Comment 22 Nate Graham 2021-12-13 20:53:04 UTC
Git commit cbef8e66fb7b7bad82b245d49849df6b0552d9aa by Nate Graham, on behalf of Noah Davis.
Committed on 13/12/2021 at 20:48.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Move plasmoid specific properties out of singleton

M  +7    -4    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ActionMenu.qml
M  +7    -7    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsPage.qml
M  +5    -5    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/BasePage.qml
M  +6    -6    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Footer.qml
M  +9    -74   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml
M  +14   -14   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Header.qml
M  +105  -33   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml
M  +1    -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffItemDelegate.qml
M  +2    -44   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffSingleton.qml
M  +2    -2    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/LeaveButtons.qml
M  +3    -3    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/NormalPage.qml
M  +5    -5    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/PlacesPage.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/cbef8e66fb7b7bad82b245d49849df6b0552d9aa
Comment 23 Nate Graham 2021-12-13 20:55:01 UTC
Git commit a609b639a3aa2493d1db3922fb7d733733d97c20 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Noah Davis.
Committed on 13/12/2021 at 20:54.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.23'.

Move plasmoid specific properties out of singleton


(cherry picked from commit cbef8e66fb7b7bad82b245d49849df6b0552d9aa)

M  +7    -4    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ActionMenu.qml
M  +7    -7    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsPage.qml
M  +5    -5    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/BasePage.qml
M  +6    -6    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Footer.qml
M  +9    -74   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml
M  +14   -14   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Header.qml
M  +105  -33   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml
M  +1    -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffItemDelegate.qml
M  +2    -44   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffSingleton.qml
M  +2    -2    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/LeaveButtons.qml
M  +3    -3    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/NormalPage.qml
M  +5    -5    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/PlacesPage.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/a609b639a3aa2493d1db3922fb7d733733d97c20
Comment 24 David Edmundson 2021-12-13 21:28:20 UTC
*** Bug 446871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 25 Nate Graham 2021-12-14 20:45:00 UTC
*** Bug 446983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26 Colin Gauvin 2021-12-14 21:23:00 UTC
This is my first time going through the bug report process here. I see it was merged, but I was wondering if there's any way to track which release it will be in. If it's too complicated/not worth the time to explain, that's fine. I'm mainly just curious how it works.
Comment 27 alkl58 2021-12-14 21:41:14 UTC
(In reply to Colin Gauvin from comment #26)
> ... but I was wondering if there's any way to track which release it will be in. 

You can look at the top right of the overview of the Bug report, you will see "Version Fixed In", which is 5.23.5 for this bug report.

The Schedule of the Plasma 5 releases can be found here: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#Future_releases

Plasma 5.23.5 is scheduled for Tue 2022-01-04 - however until it lands in your Distro can take a few days to months depending on the Distros release cycle.
Comment 28 Colin Gauvin 2021-12-14 21:42:13 UTC
(In reply to alkl58 from comment #27)
> (In reply to Colin Gauvin from comment #26)
> > ... but I was wondering if there's any way to track which release it will be in. 
> 
> You can look at the top right of the overview of the Bug report, you will
> see "Version Fixed In", which is 5.23.5 for this bug report.
> 
> The Schedule of the Plasma 5 releases can be found here:
> https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#Future_releases
> 
> Plasma 5.23.5 is scheduled for Tue 2022-01-04 - however until it lands in
> your Distro can take a few days to months depending on the Distros release
> cycle.

Awesome, thanks so much.
Comment 29 Nico Lynzaad 2021-12-27 08:57:18 UTC
*** Bug 447313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30 Nate Graham 2022-01-11 22:27:20 UTC
*** Bug 447262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31 Nate Graham 2022-01-25 17:06:21 UTC
*** Bug 448640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***