SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Single click on file in Project Bin 2. Clip Monitor appears OBSERVED RESULT Clip Monitor appears EXPECTED RESULT Select clip (no Clip Monitor) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 KDen Version: 26.03.70 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Single Click only ever causes problems. Single means select. Double means open. Any time this rule is broken in software, it confuses everything, I am not the only person struggling from this. It is deathly irritating. I have never once in my entire time using Premiere Pro or Clip Studio ever wanted this to pop up. If this is a feature not a bug, then please disable it and allow it as an optional feature. But if I know my clips (I do), then I do not need Clip Monitor to see it, I'll just drag it into the timeline to view it. https://www.reddit.com/r/kdenlive/comments/1q3aniv/please_let_me_permanently_turn_off_clip_monitor/ https://www.reddit.com/r/kdenlive/comments/1pvrwgm/how_do_i_permanently_disable_the_clip_monitor/
I was TH>i<S close to simply closing this as not a bug. Giving focus to the clip monitor when a bin clip is selected is long term, intentional, and desirable behaviour. The assertions about there being One True Behaviour for single clicking are simply wrong. And the degree of hysteria and seemingly manufactured support and reposting everywhere for an issue that nobody has ever had a problem with before were great big red flags. But it turns out that what is *not* said here or in the repost on the forum is that the real problem seems to be that while we used to prompt you to open the clip monitor if it wasn't already a dock window you had enabled, with the new Dock Code that behaviour appears to have changed. So I'm putting that on record here for further investigation.
Git commit f9cfaef078aa143479183db7d88ca01a277abb5b by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 20/01/2026 at 16:12. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'release/25.12'. Fix monitors always displayed on activation even when explicitely hidden FIXED-IN: 25.12.2 M +7 -3 src/mainwindow.cpp M +1 -1 src/mainwindow.h M +3 -2 src/statusbarmessagelabel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/commit/f9cfaef078aa143479183db7d88ca01a277abb5b
Testing the feature, it works good! 💪 The message: "Do you want to <a href="#clipmonitor">show the clip monitor</a> to view timeline?" is not so clear to me, though. Wouldn't "...to view clip?" / "...to view it?" be clearer? 🤔