SUMMARY Every time a date input field is selected, a tooltip with the date in it is opened and very quickly closed in succession, which makes it impossible to enter data because the focus switches constantly. The only way to reliably enter dates is through the calendar date picker. There's a workaround (kind of): setting the window activation policy in System Settings to "Focus under mouse". This causes the tooltip to not steal the focus on the window so dates can be entered normally. However, this obviously affects how the focus works for the entire desktop so not really a good option. This is probably related to how tooltips work in Wayland (needing a parent to be treated as a proper tooltip instead of a standalone window), e.g. see bug 442779. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Focus a date field (e.g. in Ledgers) OBSERVED RESULT While the date field is focused, a tooltip is opened which takes away focus from the main window, due to the main window losing focus the tooltip disappears, then the date field is focused again, showing the tooltip again, etc. in an infinite loop. EXPECTED RESULT The tooltip shouldn't show in the first place, or it shouldn't be opened in such a way that it has its own focus separate from the main window. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Gentoo 2.8 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.21-gentoo-dist (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor Memory: 23.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX Vega ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If, as I suspect, this is specific to Wayland, then I would clarify that in they subject, and would guess that there is nothing the KMyMoney team can directly do about it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which component to report this against - possibly frameworks-kwayland, frameworks-plasma, or one of the other plasma components.
(In reply to Jack from comment #1) > If, as I suspect, this is specific to Wayland, then I would clarify that in > they subject, and would guess that there is nothing the KMyMoney team can > directly do about it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which component to report > this against - possibly frameworks-kwayland, frameworks-plasma, or one of > the other plasma components. Looking at the code for a bit, this might technically be a Frameworks bug. However, KMyMoney uses [1] the deprecated KPassivePopup component [2] for this so it should probably be ported away from that either way, and since it's deprecated I don't assume that component will be fixed to work correctly on Wayland, also it seems to me like doing that would need it to be rewritten significantly since it uses a lot of absolute positioning logic for one. Going to unlink bug 442779 since there's more going on than just that, if it's even related. [1]: https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/blob/master/kmymoney/widgets/kmymoneydateinput.cpp [2]: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifications/-/commit/3b972140996edcf83e2d311409b5ee6745cc902e
*** Bug 439289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/merge_requests/141
Git commit fce954bd1648ef1d1588b8ae753421be9c7a5fec by Thomas Baumgart, on behalf of Marco Rebhan. Committed on 06/01/2022 at 08:38. Pushed by tbaumgart into branch 'master'. Remove use of deprecated KPassivePopup Removed completely because the popup displayed the same date as displayed in the date field itself, making it unneeded imo. This fixes the popup rapidly appearing and disappearing on Wayland when the date field has focus, making it very hard to input a date. M +1 -27 kmymoney/widgets/kmymoneydateinput.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/commit/fce954bd1648ef1d1588b8ae753421be9c7a5fec
Git commit 6739583967a2c1e9a7f3d4c5aa1503cb08d0cb46 by Thomas Baumgart. Committed on 06/01/2022 at 11:22. Pushed by tbaumgart into branch '5.1'. Remove use of deprecated KPassivePopup Removed completely because the popup displayed the same date as displayed in the date field itself, making it unneeded imo. This fixes the popup rapidly appearing and disappearing on Wayland when the date field has focus, making it very hard to input a date. FIXED-IN: 5.1.3 (cherry picked from commit fce954bd1648ef1d1588b8ae753421be9c7a5fec) M +1 -27 kmymoney/widgets/kmymoneydateinput.cpp https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/commit/6739583967a2c1e9a7f3d4c5aa1503cb08d0cb46
*** Bug 442586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***