Created attachment 164268 [details] More Actions with Activities menu SUMMARY Normally when one clicks on the "More actions" icon at the top-left of a window the menu shows Desktops and Activities (see screenshot 1. "Activities Menu as Expected"). Instead that menu has valished! See second screenshot (2. "Activities Menu No Longer Exists"). That is a BIG change. Even if it is a purposed change, it is definitely not OK without some announcement or something in my assessment. Also, it is not a bug fix or patch it is a NEW UI feature and should have a feature version number like 5.29.x or something. No not even a 5.28.x because it is a completly new UI implenentation. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Make sure you have the latest desktop installed (this is Kubuntu 23.10) 2. Open any window 3. Click on the "More actions" icon 3. Other menu items like Deskops are still there OBSERVED RESULT 5. Activities menu item as shown in first screenshot is Absent! 6. There was/is no configuration or setting available to put the Activities menu back (see "Window Decorations / Titlebar buttons" for example of where that kind of thing might be provided for users). 7. A search so far to find out how to restore the menu has Not proven fruitful. I'd expect something writte-up in help or a man page or something... EXPECTED RESULT 8. Expect and want the Activities menu that was there 4 hours ago when I logged on this morning. 9. I expect the have facility show the same window on two or more Activities using the activity checkbox on the menu. I can not do that at the moment. 10. I expect to have some method to share a window between 2 or more Activies on command line or with some tool or configuration or somehow. Just to completely obliviate such an important capability is very, very dissapointing. 11. I have not found a method to make an equivalent setting or way to see the same window on more than one activities. 12. I expect that I could still allow a window to be shown on All Activities as a fall-back alternative to the absence of selective checkboxes. Check-boxes are prefered, just looking for something to get my workflow back on track while this error is sorted out. 13. Without the checkboxes for Activities at least having way to show a window on "All Activities" I'll need some way to manually present the same consistient view betwen different activitiestrying to manually mirror a document or window -- Often that is not even a possibility without Activities. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Operating System: Kubuntu 23.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.0-14-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: llvmpipe Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: B450 AORUS PRO WIFI ADDITIONAL INFORMATION * The activities menu was working this morning. I have not had and update since this morning, but I did reboot. * Using Wayland -- After this I will check to see if the problem is on X.11 too. This moring the menu was there and I was using Wayland.
Created attachment 164269 [details] Activities Menu No Longer Exists
* I restarted my Kubuntu workstation again * This time I did a `shutdown` * I rebooted * Logged in to X11 Plasma session -- Activities menu was present (tick); logged-out * Logged in to Wayland Plasma session -- Activities menu was present (tick) There must have been something wrong with the runtime instance, as I had previously rebooted (not a shutdown) prior to seeing this problem. The reason I rebooted was some trouble with Firefox windows. My recommendation now is if you have issues that look like they are related to the graphics stuff, etc. Perform a shutdown, not just reboot to let the GPU flush or whatever has to happen. Sorry for the bother, hopefully someone will learn from this experience :-)