Bugzilla – Bug 832020
Preview plasmoid for RPM locks the window manager
Last modified: 2015-11-06 21:44:14 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #684632 +++ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0 When the Preview plasmoid is used to preview a package, it includes a button to install the package. When the package is pressed, a modal password box appears under the Preview window. The Preview window is inactive and the active window is invisible. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tell Dolphin to preview file nickle-2.70-1.src.rpm [1]. 2. Tell Preview to install that thing with YaST. 3. Tell Preview to close. 4. Tell the window manager to activate another window. 5. Tell Plasma to activate another window. 6. Tell System activity monitor to activate another window. 7. Throw your computer out of the window and go for a walk. Actual Results: 1. The Preview window displaying the contents of nickle-2.70-1.src.rpm appears. 2. ??? 3. ??? 4. ??? 5. ??? 6. ??? 7. Profit. Expected Results: 2. The root password dialog box. 3. Let Preview close, Himmeldonnerwetter! ___ [1] <URL: http://nickle.org/release/nickle-2.70-1.src.rpm >
(In reply to comment #0) > When the Preview plasmoid is used to preview a package, it includes a button to > install the package. Can you tell which plasmoid is that? I never heard of such plasmoid.
No reply in more than 4 weeks. Please reopen if you are able to provide the requested information.
*** Bug 790155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > When the Preview plasmoid is used to preview a package, it includes a button to > > install the package. > > Can you tell which plasmoid is that? I never heard of such plasmoid. plasma-applet-previewer
I guess this is not a qml plasmoid which is available in plasma5. 12.3 is out of support. Feel free to reopen, if the issue occurs in a >13.1 product.