SUMMARY Since today's kde/qt updates, the Overview effect does not respond to mouse clicks anymore. (This used to work correctly prior to the update.) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Trigger the Overview effect (e. g. using active corner or shortcut) 2. (Left-)click on the area of a window OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens. EXPECTED RESULT The effect should be closed and the clicked window should be shown. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.23 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-40-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4000 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Might be Wayland-only. I haven't used X since a longer time.
Created attachment 143622 [details] Screencast
Same problem on X - I have made you a screencast.
By the way, the purple description background is really strange. That's only on X, not on Wayland, though. Is this on purpose, or should I file a separate issue?
Created attachment 143624 [details] Update log
An update in `qt5-declarative` is the cause. The `5.15.2+kde+r40-1` in archlinux's versioning.
@tgnff242 Thanks for the information. Unfortunately I'm not able to check as I can't easily revert the update. Is the Archlinux `qt5-declarative` package equivalent to `qtdeclarative5-dev` in KDE Neon?
@geisserml That one and the `qtdeclarative5-dev-tools`. `apt` keeps the previous packages somewhere in `/var/caches`. If you hadn't cleared it yet, you should be able to find it. Also, the Present Windows seems to work.
@tgnff242 I rolled back the `qtdeclarative5-dev-tools` package as suggested, but it didn't fix the issue, unfortunately. From looking at the package contents, this would also seem unlikely, since it appears to only contain development utilities that are not used at runtime, as far as I can guess.
> That one and the `qtdeclarative5-dev-tools`. Oh, pardon - I overlooked the "that one and". I'll have to re-test this.
So now I managed to roll back both the qtdeclaratives5-dev and the qtdeclaratives5-dev-tools package to the older versions using the following commands: ```bash cd /var/cache/apt/archives sudo dpkg --force-all -i qtdeclarative5-dev-tools_5.15.2+p20.04+tunstable+git20211110.0228-0_amd64.deb qtdeclarative5-dev_5.15.2+p20.04+tunstable+git20211110.0228-0_amd64.deb ``` However, it's still the same issue anyway...
It might have been an even older working version on Neon, more split packages or that you hadn't restarted kwin. In any case, it seems to be fixed by an update to qt5-declarative on my end.
(In reply to tgnff242 from comment #11) > It might have been an even older working version on Neon, more split > packages or that you hadn't restarted kwin. > > In any case, it seems to be fixed by an update to qt5-declarative on my end. I did restart kwin (via system reboot), but probably it will be more split packages, as you say. If this is already fixed in newer Qt packages I'm fine with it, hoping they will get released to Neon User at some point.
Is there any way how we can help accelerate getting this fixed in distributions quickly, in particularly KDE Neon? I'm kind of tired to wait until the next regular release cycle for this bug to get resolved, as the next release might introduce similar new bugs in other areas. I know developing reliable software is really hard, but from a user perspective it would sometimes apear nice if KDE had better means of quality control for releases. The bugginess of the system sometimes annoys me a bit.
No changes to the overview effect in 5.23 were made. If something has regressed, I suggest to try rolling back Qt packages. I'm not familiar with ubuntu package naming, but "qtdeclarative5-dev" most likely contains C++ header files not the actual libs.
The thing is that there is no `qt5-declarative` package, only `qt5-declarative-dev` and `qt5-declarative-private-dev`. From looking at the list of installed packages for `qt5-declarative-dev`, it seems like this package also contains binaries, not only headers. I'll attach the list for you to check.
Created attachment 143935 [details] qt5-declarative-dev (list of installed files)
* installed packages I mean installed files, of course. Sorry.
I've moved the issue to KDE Neon, as it's caused by Qt packaging rather than by the Overview effect itself.
Latest snapshot of user edition should contain the fix.
> Latest snapshot of user edition should contain the fix. Confirmed, thanks a lot!
@ Vlad Zahorodnii: Any ideas about the purple text background on X that I mentioned in Comment 3? Is this a known bug?