https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484421
Bug ID: 484421
Summary: KBibTex sometimes loses track of the active element,
resulting in shortcuts affecting the wrong item and
other issues
Classification: Applications
Product: KBibTeX
Version: 0.10
Platform: Arch Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: User interface
Assignee: fisc...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de
Reporter: adam.m.fontenot+...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
After you import a new item via paste, resulting in the selected element
automatically changing, this element selection can get "lost" internally, so
that ctrl-d will open the document for the previously selected element, ctrl-e
will edit the previously selected element. This affects the Element menu item
as well.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open KBT and create a new document. Add a new element. I added a journal
paper using the DOI.
2. Add a local PDF to the newly created element. Make sure that the element is
selected, and check that ctrl-d opens the PDF as expected.
3. Copy a BiBTeX citation to your clipboard in another application. I copied a
citation from KWrite, downloaded from a Google Books page.
4. Paste the citation in KBT by pressing ctrl-v.
5. Observe that the newly created element for the pasted citation is selected
in KBT. Click the Element menu item to open the menu.
6. Observe that there is no sub-menu for "View Document", because there is no
local file corresponding to the newly created element. Close the sub-menu **by
clicking on the Element menu item again**.
7. Observe that in the interface the newly created element remains selected.
Immediately press ctrl-e.
OBSERVED RESULT
The editing window for the **first** element created in the reproduction steps
is opened. If you click on the Element menu item, the View Document option will
give access to the PDF file, and ctrl-d will open it.
In other words, KBT acts as if the wrong element were active in the element
selection panel. The true selected element has been lost. This somehow happens
*after* the menu is opened in step 5.
EXPECTED RESULT
The editing window for the newly created element is opened.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.7.9-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Note: my distribution builds KBT against Qt 5, not Qt 6.
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