Plasma/Wayland Known Significant Issues: Revision history

7 May 2023

• curprev 19:5519:55, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,820 bytes −14‎ None of the Plasma issues are really showstoppers
• curprev 19:5419:54, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,834 bytes −75‎ Lots of these issues are blocked by needing new Wayland protocols; delete that section and move its items into other groups
• curprev 19:5219:52, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,909 bytes +10‎ QDockWidget issue isn't really a showstopper
• curprev 19:4819:48, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,899 bytes −210‎ Group non-showstoppers too
• curprev 19:4519:45, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,109 bytes +150‎ Separate true showstoppers from annoyances more clearly
• curprev 19:3919:39, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,959 bytes 0‎ Visual line glitches with fractional scaling aren't really a showstopper
• curprev 19:3819:38, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,959 bytes −12‎ No edit summary
• curprev 19:3819:38, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,971 bytes +5‎ Okular issue isn't really a showstopper
• curprev 16:3416:34, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,966 bytes −48‎ "Saving and restoring activities does not work" isn't a Wayland-specific issue; it's pretty broken on X11 too
• curprev 16:2216:22, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,014 bytes −352‎ "Context menu text and Plasma icons are sometimes blurred until interacted with on scaled screens with mixed scale screen setup" is fixed in Plasma 6!
• curprev 16:1716:17, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,366 bytes −6‎ No edit summary
• curprev 16:0916:09, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,372 bytes 0‎ "When using scaling, logging into Wayland session after X11 session resets scale to 1" is fixed in Plasma 6!
• curprev 16:0716:07, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,372 bytes −135‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues that aren't fully showstoppers: "Single-instance GTK applications aren't raised when trying to launch a second time" is fixed now!
• curprev 16:0616:06, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,507 bytes 0‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues that aren't fully showstoppers
• curprev 16:0416:04, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,507 bytes −33‎ Combine gamma and color management issues since they're really the same thing
• curprev 16:0216:02, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,540 bytes +119‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450327 (Night Color doesn't work at all on Plasma Wayland with NVIDIA)
• curprev 16:0116:01, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,421 bytes +18‎ Make NVIDIA issues its own category
• curprev 15:5915:59, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,403 bytes 0‎ Wrong LibreOffice icon isn't a showstopper; moving it to the annoyance section
• curprev 15:5315:53, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,403 bytes +3‎ →‎Plasma
• curprev 15:4515:45, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,400 bytes 0‎ Imperfect maximized windows on XWayland apps isn't really a showstopper
• curprev 15:4415:44, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,400 bytes +9‎ →‎KWin/compositing/window management
• curprev 15:4315:43, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,391 bytes +4‎ No edit summary
• curprev 15:3915:39, 7 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,387 bytes −76‎ Broken window shading is not really a showstopper since it's barely supported in Plasma 5 and may be removed there too

5 May 2023

• curprev 06:1606:16, 5 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,463 bytes +104‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468895 (With NVIDIA, all screen content freezes when Night Color is activated)

3 May 2023

• curprev 15:4815:48, 3 May 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,359 bytes +86‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469016 (Plasma Panels sometime visually freeze with NVIDIA GPU)

28 April 2023

• curprev 21:0521:05, 28 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 6,273 bytes +304‎ Add some NVIDIA issues
• curprev 01:0201:02, 28 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,969 bytes +86‎ No edit summary

27 April 2023

• curprev 21:4321:43, 27 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,883 bytes +173‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451293 (After waking NVIDIA-GPU-using system from sleep, sometimes text is partially or entirely missing from from QtQuick-based apps)

21 April 2023

• curprev 15:1215:12, 21 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,710 bytes +28‎ No edit summary
• curprev 15:0415:04, 21 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,682 bytes +18‎ →‎Fixed already in Qt 6 but not backportable nor backported to Qt 5

20 April 2023

• curprev 16:5516:55, 20 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,664 bytes +106‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468725 (Menu text is sometimes blurred with mixed-DPI screen setup)

13 April 2023

• curprev 20:2120:21, 13 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,558 bytes +113‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468422 (Text copied from PDFs in Okular can't be pasted once Okular quits)

10 April 2023

• curprev 17:4617:46, 10 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,445 bytes +58‎ No edit summary
• curprev 00:0300:03, 10 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,387 bytes +172‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449645 (When using a Chromium-based browser in native Wayland mode, dragging an image to the desktop created a sticky note out of it)

9 April 2023

• curprev 22:4922:49, 9 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,215 bytes +115‎ No edit summary

6 April 2023

• curprev 21:2521:25, 6 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,100 bytes −78‎ https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1660 is fixed now in SDDM 0.20!
• curprev 21:2321:23, 6 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,178 bytes −188‎ https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/30912 is fixed in Electron 24!

4 April 2023

• curprev 19:1719:17, 4 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,366 bytes −87‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467547 was already fixed earlier today before I even added to this page! Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 19:1219:12, 4 April 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,453 bytes +87‎ Adding https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467547 (Stuck at black screen when logging out)

16 March 2023

• curprev 15:1915:19, 16 March 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,366 bytes −276‎ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754810 is fixed now!

15 March 2023

• curprev 16:4516:45, 15 March 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,642 bytes +83‎ Qt apps now survive compositor restarts in Qt 6!
• curprev 13:3513:35, 15 March 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,559 bytes −83‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454616 is fixed now!

14 March 2023

• curprev 17:0217:02, 14 March 2023‎ Davidedmundson talk contribs‎ 5,642 bytes −95‎ →‎KWin/compositing/window management
• curprev 17:0117:01, 14 March 2023‎ Davidedmundson talk contribs‎ 5,737 bytes +1‎ No edit summary

9 March 2023

• curprev 07:5707:57, 9 March 2023‎ Bednarpl talk contribs‎ 5,736 bytes −7‎ →‎Fixed already in Qt 6 but not backportable nor backported to Qt 5

6 March 2023

• curprev 23:2023:20, 6 March 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,743 bytes +133‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466844 (Windows marked "keep on top" cover up panel widget pop-ups and clipboard history menu)
• curprev 09:2409:24, 6 March 2023‎ Bednarpl talk contribs‎ 5,610 bytes +217‎ →‎Fixed already in Qt 6 but not backportable nor backported to Qt 5
• curprev 09:2309:23, 6 March 2023‎ Bednarpl talk contribs‎ 5,393 bytes −111‎ →‎Upstream issues, or KDE issues blocked by required upstream changes

1 March 2023

• curprev 15:0815:08, 1 March 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,504 bytes +100‎ Add https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-77182 (Wrong app icon in Task Switcher for LibreOffice apps)

22 February 2023

• curprev 23:1423:14, 22 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,404 bytes −88‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452119 has been improved to the point where it's no longer a showstopper
• curprev 22:0622:06, 22 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,492 bytes +77‎ Add https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1660 (User switching in SDDM is broken)
• curprev 21:2421:24, 22 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,415 bytes −201‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461911 is fixed now!
• curprev 18:1818:18, 22 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,616 bytes +127‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459373 (Maximized XWayland apps leave pixel gaps when using a fractional scaling factor)

21 February 2023

• curprev 21:3021:30, 21 February 2023‎ Davidedmundson talk contribs‎ 5,489 bytes −92‎ →‎Plasma: remove non showstopper. this shouldn't be any obscure bug
• curprev 21:2021:20, 21 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,581 bytes −167‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464526 is fixed now!
• curprev 21:2021:20, 21 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,748 bytes +201‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461911 (Mouse cursor can go 1 pixel beyond screen edges, which breaks Fitts' law for those screen edges and makes hover-enabled UI elements touching them flicker)

17 February 2023

• curprev 23:1223:12, 17 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,547 bytes +167‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464526 (Flickering line above panel for certain heights when using fractional scaling with Background Contrast effect turned on)
• curprev 20:3320:33, 17 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,380 bytes −2‎ No edit summary
• curprev 20:3220:32, 17 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,382 bytes +94‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465775 (Plasma crashes when a window title is too long)

13 February 2023

• curprev 18:2918:29, 13 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,288 bytes +111‎ Add https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-111130 (QMenus appear as standalone windows when opened using a stylus)

11 February 2023

• curprev 18:2218:22, 11 February 2023‎ Starkle talk contribs‎ 5,177 bytes −140‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues caused by non-KDE software
• curprev 01:2801:28, 11 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,317 bytes +95‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442846 (Blocking calls to XWayland can make KWin freeze)

7 February 2023

• curprev 19:2719:27, 7 February 2023‎ Asensi talk contribs‎ m 5,222 bytes +1‎ An "n" was added in order to avoid confusions. Thanks for all the work you do!
• curprev 15:0815:08, 7 February 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,221 bytes +106‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465158 (Visual line glitches with certain fractional scale factors)

12 January 2023

• curprev 19:3219:32, 12 January 2023‎ Nicolas Fella talk contribs‎ 5,115 bytes +135‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues caused by non-KDE software
• curprev 19:3119:31, 12 January 2023‎ Nicolas Fella talk contribs‎ 4,980 bytes −26‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues caused by non-KDE software
• curprev 19:2519:25, 12 January 2023‎ Nicolas Fella talk contribs‎ 5,006 bytes +34‎ Clarify and correct xdg activation support

6 January 2023

• curprev 16:3616:36, 6 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,972 bytes +59‎ No edit summary

5 January 2023

• curprev 22:3922:39, 5 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,913 bytes −1‎ No edit summary
• curprev 22:3822:38, 5 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,914 bytes +172‎ No edit summary

4 January 2023

• curprev 20:1120:11, 4 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,742 bytes +140‎ Add https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1338554 (Chrome/Chromium web apps steal and suppress global shortcuts while focused)
• curprev 15:5815:58, 4 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,602 bytes +17‎ https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-78327 is fixed in Qt 6

1 January 2023

• curprev 00:0400:04, 1 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,585 bytes −77‎ Removing "Activation issues in KDE apps" as it is not a showstopper
• curprev 00:0200:02, 1 January 2023‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,662 bytes +76‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377162 (Window shading does not work)

27 December 2022

• curprev 15:2515:25, 27 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,586 bytes −107‎ Removing https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455526 as it is not really a showstopper, merely an annoyance for some people with certain non-default settings

24 December 2022

• curprev 22:1522:15, 24 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,693 bytes +31‎ Moving https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432264 to the section for upstream issues, since it's a Qt bug (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93380)

22 December 2022

• curprev 22:5022:50, 22 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,662 bytes −130‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449948 is fixed in Plasma 5.27!

20 December 2022

• curprev 21:4921:49, 20 December 2022‎ Asensi talk contribs‎ 4,792 bytes −115‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461498 was solved recently. Thanks for your work!

16 December 2022

• curprev 19:4919:49, 16 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,907 bytes −184‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429236 is fixed now for Plasma 5.27!
• curprev 19:3619:36, 16 December 2022‎ Buovjaga talk contribs‎ 5,091 bytes −186‎ Bug 385135 fixed
• curprev 08:3208:32, 16 December 2022‎ Crunk talk contribs‎ 5,277 bytes +292‎ →‎Quality-of-life issues caused by non-KDE software

13 December 2022

• curprev 18:5318:53, 13 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,985 bytes +17‎ No edit summary
• curprev 18:5118:51, 13 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,968 bytes 0‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446674 is fixed in Qt 6!
• curprev 18:2018:20, 13 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,968 bytes +115‎ Add https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461498 (Disabling middle-click paste breaks text selection in some GTK apps)

9 December 2022

• curprev 21:1021:10, 9 December 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,853 bytes −133‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454379 is fixed now!

29 November 2022

• curprev 16:1816:18, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,986 bytes −71‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436016 is at least fixed in Qt 6; move it to the appropriate group
• curprev 16:1716:17, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,057 bytes +255‎ Undo revision 95290 by Ngraham (talk) - the Qt backport was reverted too Tag: Undo
• curprev 15:5915:59, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,802 bytes −255‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447717 is fixed now with a Qt backport
• curprev 15:5515:55, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,057 bytes 0‎ No edit summary
• curprev 15:5515:55, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,057 bytes −80‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446674 is no longer blocked upstream
• curprev 15:5415:54, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,137 bytes −102‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455021 was a packaging bug
• curprev 15:5215:52, 29 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,239 bytes −7‎ →‎KWin/compositing/window management

15 November 2022

• curprev 17:4617:46, 15 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,246 bytes −102‎ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453937 is fixed now!
• curprev 17:4417:44, 15 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,348 bytes +102‎ Add Can't drag-and-drop images from Firefox to the desktop: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448867

10 November 2022

• curprev 22:3022:30, 10 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,246 bytes +122‎ Add https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-78327 to the QOL section

9 November 2022

• curprev 20:3920:39, 9 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,124 bytes +255‎ Add plasmashell crashes when hovering or clicking items on the Panel due to "zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1.add" protocol error: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447717 (needs Qt fix backported in https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtwayland/-/merge_requests/57)
• curprev 17:3317:33, 9 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 4,869 bytes −171‎ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767546 is fixed now!

8 November 2022

• curprev 22:2522:25, 8 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,040 bytes 0‎ No edit summary
• curprev 22:2022:20, 8 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,040 bytes −2‎ →‎KWin/compositing/window management
• curprev 20:5420:54, 8 November 2022‎ Ngraham talk contribs‎ 5,042 bytes +174‎ No edit summary