SUMMARY When closing an app sometimes the panel icon disappears, only to reappear a few seconds later with no further input from myself. Not meaning the ephemeral icons for open programs, meaning the saved ones that show even when the program is not open. The app I've been able to reproduce this the most reliably with has been the Brave browser, it doesn't happen every time but I can open and close the browser a few times and it will happen. I don't think this is a Brave specific issue though, since it has happened to me with Discord and Steam as well, though (I've at least noticed it) less often than I can make that happen with Brave. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Close an app 2. Watch its panel icon disappear 3. Wait a few seconds and watch it reappear back in its saved location OBSERVED RESULT The icon disappears, reappearing a few moments later. EXPECTED RESULT The icon should stay there. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.16.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.7 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I'm not really sure what other logs may be helpful for this, if you want any just let me know what you'd need. I can also record a video of this happening if it would help.
Went ahead and just recorded it, hopefully this explains the issue better than I could. You can see the first time it didn't happen to me, but trying the second and third time it happened. I didn't notice the bouncing icon near the pointer before though, maybe thats a clue for whats happening here? I'm not really sure what that animation is supposed to be telling me. Tried to upload this as an attachment on this bug, but the file was too large. Uploaded to YouTube instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKnGkprXUPM
It actually looks like the icon is disappearing when the app launches, and then after it closes, the icon comes back. Can you reproduce that? This is an Icont-Only Task Manager, right? Not an Icons and Text Task Manager?
Its when the application closes, sorry I had tried to make the window small enough so the task bar wouldn't hide but it did anyway. Re-recorded a video with the window a lot smaller so it shows it more clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXnup6nBcjI The name it shows for that when I open the edit mode is "Icons-Only Task Manager".
Actually with a bit more testing I think it is directly related to the bouncing icon near the pointer, if I wait until thats finished before closing the app the icon stays where it should be. However closing the application while that animation is still running causes the icon to disappear. I'm guessing that animation has some kind of meaning and isn't just animation for animations sake, but I don't know what KDE is doing while thats being displayed. Video of me reproducing that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xnH_qKOCw
Thanks, I can reproduce this 100% with Brave now. I suspect it's related to the fact that the cursor launch feedback animation doesn't stop when the app launches. It's supposed to.