https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463158
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Resolution|--- |INTENTIONAL
CC| |n...@kde.org
Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED
--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
Interesting issue; I can reproduce it .
The root cause is that when a popup opens, it closes other ones. You can
override this by pinning a popup when it's open, but that's a manual thing, and
the pop-ups aren't actually communicating with each other, just with the panel;
the pinned pop-up says "yo panel, don't close me when something else opens."
If we somehow made Kickoff not close when the Disks & Devices popup opened in
support of your use case, it wouldn't really work anyway, since only one thing
can have keyboard focus at once. So even if Kickoff remained open, the Disks &
Devices popup would take focus when it opened, ruining your ability to launch
the app. The only way this would work is if the Disks & Devices popup opened
without taking focus. That's a thing that popups currently don't have the
ability to do, because it would be weird and feel very magical, and there are
currently no plans to change this. So I don't think we can help you for that
specific use case, sorry.
Thankfully there's a simple workaround for you: open your backup app first,
then plug in the disk! :)
Here are other slightly more involved workarounds that I can think of:
- Make the Disks & Devices widget not open its popup automatically when
plugging in a new disk, as Patrick suggested
- Use the System Settings > Removable Storage > Device Actions page to create a
custom action that appears in the expanded view of disks in the Disks & Devices
pop-up which opens your chosen backup app when clicked
- Use a different backup app that auto-opens when one of its backup locations
is plugged in
- Use Kup, which is a KDE backup program that operates as system service,
rather than a standalone app
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching all bug changes.
