https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488832
Bug ID: 488832
Summary: Clicking on Lock/Logout Widget with Only Shutdown
Present will Only Display "Power Off" Option
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 6.1.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Session Management
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: eamonn...@protonmail.com
CC: natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
If you have a Lock/Logout widget and configure it to only show that button,
clicking on it will only show "Shut Down Now" and "Cancel". There is no way to,
for example, restart, unless you configure this widget to display, in that
case, "Restart" *and* click that button. You are locked to only be able to
"Perform Action Now", where that Action is the button you pressed. For
Lock/Logout, the user might only have one button configured so as to not
pollute the panel, and to simply have this as a "catch all" to display session
options.
The action can be selected from KRunner by searching for, say, "Restart", but
the "Desktop Sessions" category may not be the first result or the options
could have jumped around and changed by the time a user presses enter.
This may be intentional, as if you do this from something like the Application
Dashboard where the buttons are bigger, and the action is less generic than it
is with the Lock/Logout widget. Although I still think in that case it should
be customisable what options display on that screen, to restore the previous
behaviour.
Alternatively, a widget that can act as a button to show any number of options
as a replacement would also work.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add Lock/Logout Widget
2. Configure it to only display "Power Off"
3. Click on the Widget
4. It does not display the other session management options, it acts like the
button on the Application Dashboard/Launcher/Menu, or the option from KRunner.
This is unexpected behaviour from previous Plasma versions where you would see
a list of session management options, and I believe there was an option for
this setting to take effect immediately.
OBSERVED RESULT
Session management screen only displays the option to perform the action you
pressed immediately or to cancel. There is no way to show all session
management options (Restart, Poweroff, etc). This is a significant change in
behaviour from Plasma 6.0.5 and below, where you could see all management
options, so when using the Lock/Logout widget you could press the "Poweroff"
looking button and then choose whether you wanted to logout, restart, poweroff,
etc, without having to do so from any other screen.
EXPECTED RESULT
The options in the Application Dashboard/Launcher/Menu could, by default, have
this behaviour, but Lock/Logout should at least have an option to configure it
to display all session management options with a single button press. I assume
Lock/Logout is using the same pattern as the Application
Dashboard/Launcher/Menu.
There is an option in Power Management to "Show logout screen" on actions such
as when the Power Button is pressed. There should be a way to enable this for
whenever a session management button is pressed, both from Lock/Logout and if
the logic is indeed shared then also in the Application
Dashboard/Launcher/Menu.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.9.5 Linux Zen
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am using the Wayland session, but I don't think this is specific to X11 or
Wayland.
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