Bug 476172 - Missing selection boxes in Plasma making a lot of UI elements unusable, especially by keyboard since plasma-framework5 5.111.0-1
Summary: Missing selection boxes in Plasma making a lot of UI elements unusable, espec...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 448750
Alias: None
Product: libplasma
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: tooltips (show other bugs)
Version: 5.111.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2023-10-27 20:15 UTC by Hexagon
Modified: 2023-10-30 19:19 UTC (History)
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Description Hexagon 2023-10-27 20:15:51 UTC
The latest update of plasma-framework5 from version 5.110.0-1 to 5.111.0-1 on Archlinux creates major artifacts in the Plasma environment which makes it hard to use to unusable in some cases. It produces the following problems:

- Globally every kind of selection marking behind objects is gone. f.e. selecting a file on the desktop, the current date in the panel, the selected element in the "start menu" and others. That makes navigating visually with the keyboard impossible.
- The "task bar" is completely bugged. Open windows are shown as closed. Closed windows are shown as open. (having either the grey background or not). This makes window management very hard to impossible using the "Icons only task manager"

It makes using Plasma as a whole extremely difficult and in some cases impossible to achieve certain tasks. This is why it should be considered critical.

The problematic package was identified using system rollbacks. On Arch Linux the workaround to get a working system back is to downgrade the package plasma-framework5 to version 5.110.0-1. (the last working version,  5.111.0-1 does not work anymore:

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/p/plasma-framework5/plasma-framework5-5.110.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

The problem was probably introduced here:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.111.0/

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install plasma-frameworks 5.111.0-1
2. Relog into Plasma, but is not necessary on my PC. Directly after upgrading and downgrading the package the problem comes or goes away, depending on upgrading or downgrading.
3. Try selecting objects on the desktop, click on the clock in the "task bar", try to select a problem to launch from the "start menu" by keyboard.

OBSERVED RESULT
There is no blue selection box, making navigating or using UI elements / getting the current date from the calendar impossible

EXPECTED RESULT
In all described cases above there should be a blue selection box around

Maybe it is something with the Intel iGPU. Would need testing from other people with an AMD or Nvidia GPU.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.5.8-arch1-1-surface (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7300U CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 7,7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
Product Name: Surface Pro
System Version: 124000000000000000000000D:0B:09F:5C:09P:38S:01E:0
Comment 1 Hexagon 2023-10-27 20:48:31 UTC
After many restarts and up- and downgrades of the frameworks package and other packages, after I thought I had narrowed down the problem to the frameworks version, now suddenly the problem is gone even with the newest updates and Frameworks 5.111.0.

I am currently not able to reproduce it anymore, which is not good as I wanted to document it further via screenshots and video. Maybe some kind of cache got cleared or something. But there was something there, it definitely made by computer very hard to use for a few days. :/
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-10-30 19:19:17 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 448750 ***