1903795 - Linux KDE Flatpak: Task manager icon spawns new running application icon

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[yosukematsumura]

Attachment: Thunderbird Task Manager Screenshot

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0

Steps to reproduce:

Running on Fedora 40 Kinoite (KDE Plasma 6.0.5)
Flatpak v.115.12.1 (64-bit)
KDE Icons-Only Task Manager Widget
Thunderbird application is pinned to Task Manager (so it stays in the task manager regardless if it's running or not).

Actual results:

Clicking on the Thunderbird icon will spawn a new, separate Thunderbird icon to represent the running app.

Expected results:

Thunderbird should open and present a blue bar under the existing pinned app (as seen in the Firefox icon in the screenshot), instead of spawning a new icon.

Comment 1

[yosukematsumura]

Attachment: Launch behavior

Launching Thunderbird will spawn multiple icons, then one of them disappears.

From what I can tell, this started happening with Version 115.12.1. I use TB daily and have a script that checks for Flatpak updates daily, so it would have picked up the latest change today (Jun 20); TB 115.12.1 released Jun 19.

Comment 2

[ChrisHRD]

I can confirm this bug as well.

Bug present in Flathub flatpak
Commit: 5ce36f19a5453f807ac1fd985ed84bdc4a91d89e7325a1d87ffa95cb8d775035
Subject: Export org.mozilla.Thunderbird
Date: 2024-06-19 01:27:07 +0000

Bug not present in Flathub flatpak
Commit: eb0291af27f2bc702c84e44e33e41fe65aa7714cbf61519ec7d54d14116fe786
Subject: Export org.mozilla.Thunderbird
Date: 2024-04-18 17:25:49 +0000

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Thunderbrid Version
115.12.1 (64-bit)
Flatpak en-USthunderbird-flatpak - 1.0

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Operating System: Fedora Kinoite Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Kernel Version: 6.9.4-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics

Comment 3

[Mohan]

I can confirm this bug existing, I am running Kubuntu 24.04 (fresh install) and I have tried both flatpak and snap version and they both spawn multiple task manager instances on KDE 5.27. The pinned one has the icon, and new spawned one for active window has a blank icon. However I did not notice this issue when testing out Thunder in beta channel for snap version.

Comment 4

[ChrisHRD]

Appears to be fixed with the 07-11-2024 stable release of Thunderbird from Flathub.

Commit: 2151b1e101f1266d135040c142f4c36a7e3373dc772e75a509a38efc39ded993
Parent: ed949ecc2d7901cb8688ecfbf0f8227a243d09fcdf4824f84fa825da5f695f8e
Subject: Export org.mozilla.Thunderbird
Date: 2024-07-11 18:18:41 +0000

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Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 5

[yosukematsumura]

Confirmed fixed for me with Jul-11 release.

Comment 6

[yosukematsumura]

Reopening this bug.

This was fixed when the Flatpak application was updated to v.128esr. However, as of Jul 17, it seems to have reverted to v.115.13.0 in Flathub. The change back to v.115 has re-introduced this bug again.

As a bonus, I had to re-create my profile again since Thunderbird couldn't use my profile that was modified in v.128 with v.115.

Comment 7

[yosukematsumura]

Seems fixed again.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1908299