SUMMARY It is not possible to select text in the help center except for Ctrl+A. A selection created by dragging with the mouse is removed as soon as the click is released, or double/tripple clicking a word to select the word/sentence only highlights it for a brief moment before becoming deselected right afterwards. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open any page in the help center (e.g. type 'man:bash' in KRunner) 2. Create a text selection OBSERVED RESULT The selection gets removed instantly. The copy button in the toolbar lights up very briefly and the selected content still lands in the middle-click paste buffer. EXPECTED RESULT The selection should stay active until dismissed (by clicking on some other text). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 39 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - Wayland - (Also tripple clicking seems to select a line instead of a paragraph but that is only a minor detail and should most likely get its own bug report- please tell me if I should file on for that)
I cannot confirm this bug. I'm using Gentoo Linux, 6.6.13 kernel, Plasma 5.27.10, Frameworks 5.113.0, Qt 5.15.12 and X11. No problems with selecting text in Khelpcenter with the mouse . I can't get the keyboard to select text , though (Shift + -->).
I can confirm that with 'QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb' this does not seem to happen whereas it does with 'QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland'