Odd behaviour in Plasma 6.5

I noticed a behaviour I wasn’t expecting. Not sure if it’s a bug.

When I click on a link in an email, if the default browser isn’t already running, it is started and opens with the link I clicked displayed. But if the browser is already running, the browser is not displayed, in fact almost nothing happens. All I see is an indicator next to the browser icon in the panel (in my case it’s a bar that changes from blue to yellow) and I have to click on the browser icon to open the browser (with the clicked webpage displayed). Is this correct, or should the browser window be displayed automatically when a link is clicked in another window? Or is there a setting I need to change to get the behaviour I want?

Thanks.

Wayland I guess?

If yes I call it the “wayland popup blocker” :roll_eyes:.

In my case, my E-Mail application (thunderbird) is 99,9 % of the time minimized, if I get a KDE notification about a new Mail I can click on that notification and the Mail is selected in thunderbird sure but thunderbird would stay minimized. Basically the same as you described, all you want is to view that webpage, all I want is to view/read that Mail.

Apparently (I got told) both side / both application have to speak the same (wayland) protocol and than (maybe) it could work, But not sure if that protocol already exists or even is worked/agreed on. As the last thing is usually the most difficult part with wayland it seems.

Or even as a non software developer, how to tell the application developers what they should do so that could work? what protocol/thing exactly? no clue.

And if you not using wayland, just forget the rant I wrote.

Yes, it should.

Check your “focus stealing prevention” settings.

Should be “Low” by default

It does

Almost all desktop compositors have implemented it for quite some time.

GTK, Qt, SDL (and other toolkits) provide client side support, so does Firefox and Chrome.