Icon-Only Task Manager: unable to set "Show a launcher when not running"

[Seb]

When using the Icon-Only Task Manager widget I'm not able to to set "Show a launcher when not running" for any application. Clicking on it just does nothing and closes the menu. The other right-click options ("Maximize" for example) work as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: kde-workspace 4:4.11.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-7.13-generic 3.11.0
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 14 11:24:30 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130902.2)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Serhiy-pal (serhiy-pal)]

Button "Show A Launcher When Not Running" does not work i.e. does not pin a launcher to the bar in "Icon-only task manager". The usual Task Manager does it well. Writing value plasma-desktop-appletrc value which points to launchers fixes the problem but "Remove This Launcher" does not work as well it does not remove the launcher from the bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add Widget "Icon-Only Task Manager" to main panel
2. Open any application and application icon appears on the bar
3. Click "Show A Launcher When Not Running" from context menu opened from icon task widget
4. Open context menu again and "Show A Launcher When Not Running" is not checked
5. Close application
Actual Results:
Launcher is not pinned to the icon task widget, it disappears after application closes

Expected Results:
Launcher should remains on the icon task widget if "Show A Launcher When Not Running" is selected after application which icon corresponds to closes

"Remove This Launcher" does not work if plasma-desktop-appletrc is edited manually by adding Items=... into appropriate section

[Serhiy-pal (serhiy-pal)]

It could have been caused by packages update. Fresh installation was not checked.
Also, 'kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental' command was tried in order to fix .desktop elements but no luck.

[Paul-kde-bugs2011 (paul-kde-bugs2011)]

Seeing exactly the same behaviour on openSUSE RPMs (plasma-addons 4.11.1-244.1)

[Rtdvrs (rtdvrs)]

CONFIRMED on Kubuntu 4.11.1

[sumski (hrvoje-senjan)]

Eike, this broke with 3ff3f433e07e78d12e1081e6e571c097216de591 in libtaskmanager, any ideas how to resolve it (other than a revert)?

[Hein (sho)]

Can you specify *what* is broken? Both adding and removing launchers works just fine here.

[Hein (sho)]

Oh, sorry, in the Icons-Only Task Manager ... I guess I'll have to take a look at that codebase.

[Hein (sho)]

Git commit 7c3011e0a6459c00cf9d06d74da3a32f87f1a2f6 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 09/09/2013 at 21:12.
Pushed by hein into branch 'KDE/4.11'.

Spin the event loop before destroying the menu.

This allows the menu implementation to complete toggling the
launcher before the instance is destroyed. It's extremely un-
fortunate that the library currently requires this careful
handling; see e944d7ae in kde-workspace for a note on what
needs to be cleaned up there.

M +5 -4 applets/icontasks/windowtaskitem.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdeplasma-addons/7c3011e0a6459c00cf9d06d74da3a32f87f1a2f6

[Hein (sho)]

Git commit b56d1552e9a8f8efe8fb8fd641126e78627c61a9 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 09/09/2013 at 21:33.
Pushed by hein into branch 'KDE/4.11'.

Fix it for non-running items too.

M +5 -4 applets/icontasks/applauncheritem.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kdeplasma-addons/b56d1552e9a8f8efe8fb8fd641126e78627c61a9

[Seb (zapp-deactivatedaccount)]

fixed upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324661
Fix for v4.11.2

[adaptee (adaptee)]

*** Bug 324881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Geoffm-b (geoffm-b)]

Show launcher when not running stopped working on my Mint 15 when I upgraded to 4.11.
What can we do for those of us who are not at ease with compiling software? Wait until 4.11.3 upgrade shows up in kubuntu-ppa/backports ?

[Hein (sho)]

This fix will actually be included in 4.11.2, so no need to wait until 4.11.3.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Fixed in saucy.

kdeplasma-addons (4:4.11.1-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick commits 7c3011e0a6459c00cf9d06d74da3a32f87f1a2f6 and
    b56d1552e9a8f8efe8fb8fd641126e78627c61a9 from upstream
    to fix the bug where "Show a launcher when not running"
    does not pin a launcher

 -- Howard Chan <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:23:18 +0800

[Serhiy-pal (serhiy-pal)]

Not sure which update but it is fixed now (4.11.1)