https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438467
Bug ID: 438467
Summary: On button factor, the whole menu autocloses when
circulating though first-level menu items, and
second-onward levels show at the center of the screen
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.22.0
Platform: Gentoo Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Global Menu
Assignee: k...@privat.broulik.de
Reporter: acidrums4+st...@gmail.com
CC: mvourla...@gmail.com, plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
I find this rather difficult to explain in plain text and can't record the
screen because wayland, so I'd do my best.
Setting globalmenu in button factor (where it shows itself as a three-bar icon,
you click it and the app menu appears) don't work as expected with Wayland. You
can move your cursor through the elements of the first level menu (i.e. File,
Edit, Preferences...). The second you move the cursor from one menu item to
other, the menu autocloses itself, so you have to click the globalmenu button
again and go to the desired menu item, being careful enough to not hover over
any other menu item.
Also, the second-level popup menu (say, for example, the menu items contained
by the 'File' menu) shows at the absolute center of the screen. There's a
obscure pattern there too, because if you move the cursor in some direction the
whole menu will autoclose, but in other way it does not - can't explain how,
because I'm not quite sure of how that pattern works.
Weird enough, globalmenu works as expected when clicking the globalmenu item
and activating the menu items with the keyboard (with cursor keys) or *almost*
as expected when setting a global keyboard shortcut for it and activating it
via keyboard. Second-onward level menus appear where they're supposed to show
up, right next to the first level menu, but when setting a global keyboard
shortcut and activating globalmenu with it, sometimes the first level menu will
show up with a weird layout where the items show up with center-aligned texts
and are not activatable/hoverable.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add globalmenu to a panel, whether horizontal or vertical, and set it to
button factor.
2. Open an app that has appmenu support (say, Dolphin).
3. Click the globalmenu button created in the panel.
4. Hover over a menu item and, if said menu item has a secondary menu, move the
cursor to it.
5. Hover over several menu items on the first level.
OBSERVED RESULT
If (4) has a secondary menu, it will show at the absolute center of the screen.
Trying to reach it with the cursor is difficult - if you move the cursor a
certain way, the whole menu will close automatically.
On (5) the whole menu closes automatically, not letting the user to walk
through the secondary items of a menu - you'd need to click globalmenu again,
and carefully place the cursor over the desired menu item without hovering over
any other item, or the whole menu will close automatically again.
EXPECTED RESULT
The user can walk through the items of any given menu without needing to
activate globalmenu for each menu item, and secondary-onwards levels should
show up right next to their parent. As traditional menus do.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Gentoo x86-64, Kernel 5.12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82
Qt Version: 5.15.2
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