Bug 491075 - Cancelled screencast causes Spectacle to display preview pane and toolbar with no media
Summary: Cancelled screencast causes Spectacle to display preview pane and toolbar wit...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 24.05.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-07-31 17:29 UTC by Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell
Modified: 2025-12-08 22:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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A Screencast That Demonstrates How To Reproduce It In 6.1.3 (752.90 KB, video/webm)
2024-07-31 17:29 UTC, Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 		Details
A Screenshot Of A Window With A Preview Pane And No Media (53.60 KB, image/png)
2024-07-31 17:30 UTC, Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 		Details
A Screenshot Of An Error Dialog/Modal Window (24.31 KB, image/png)
2024-07-31 17:30 UTC, Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 		Details
A Screencast That Confirms That This Reproduces In 6.5.1 (263.39 KB, video/webm)
2025-11-01 18:39 UTC, Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 		Details
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Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2024-07-31 17:29:50 UTC 
Created attachment 172152 [details]
A Screencast That Demonstrates How To Reproduce It In 6.1.3

SUMMARY
If the user commences the process of choosing what to screencast, but cancel using the "Escape" key before they do, the wrong GUI is presented.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  ```sh
    spectacle --new-instance
    ```
2.  Select the "Recording" tab.
3.  Select the "Rectangular Region" button.
4.  Press the "Escape" key.
5.  Select "Save as" in the toolbar.

OBSERVED RESULT
It invokes the preview pane and toolbar despite no media being present.

EXPECTED RESULT
It should revert to the new GUI without the preview pane.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: X670E Taichi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It's not particularly important, because the issue is evident to the user.
Comment 1 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2024-07-31 17:30:30 UTC 
Created attachment 172153 [details]
A Screenshot Of A Window With A Preview Pane And No Media
Comment 2 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2024-07-31 17:30:46 UTC 
Created attachment 172154 [details]
A Screenshot Of An Error Dialog/Modal Window
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-30 20:35:00 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report, and I'm sorry we weren't able to look into it yet. A lot has changed since it was reported; can I ask you to see if this is still an issue with Plasma 6.5 or later? Thanks a lot!
Comment 4 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-11-01 18:39:03 UTC 
Created attachment 186394 [details]
A Screencast That Confirms That This Reproduces In 6.5.1

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)

> Thank you for the bug report, and I'm sorry we weren't able to look into it
> yet. A lot has changed since it was reported; can I ask you to see if this
> is still an issue with Plasma 6.5 or later? Thanks a lot!

It does. I've attached confirmation.
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2025-11-16 03:48:09 UTC 
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Comment 6 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-11-16 11:07:41 UTC 
Reverting status, per https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491075#c5.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2025-12-08 22:34:27 UTC 
Yeah in this case we should probably disable the "Save As…" button, at a minimum.