Retroarch: (WIMP) Left Click Action?

[pepedopolous]

In the Playlists browser 'All Playlists' is selected by default and if I left click on any of the other playlists e.g. 'Nintendo - Game Boy' or 'History' there is no response - all non-hidden game titles continue to be displayed.

Surely the expected behaviour is that clicking on a playlist would display only the games in that playlist. Am I missing something here? I am using the retroarch-git AUR package on Archlinux.

[bparker06]

It should change the center display to only show that playlist's contents, it does for me. Can you try updating RA? "All Playlists" is also not the default anymore.

[RobLoach]

Going to close this one for now. If the issue persists after updating, feel free to re-open it. Thanks!

[pepedopolous]

I've rebuilt and reinstalled and deleted the old .config files. Now when I turn on the Desktop interface it shows the History list. The problem with the playlists persists however. If I click on any other playlist, the middle panel doesn't change, it still shows the History list.

[pepedopolous]

Hi, please can this Issue be reopened? It is present on both my Archlinux boxes, using the latest builds of the AUR package retroarch-git. It happens even if I completely delete all of the retroarch config folder and start from scratch.

[twinaphex]

@RobLoach When it comes to Qt desktop-related questions, ask @bparker06 first if they can be closed before closing.

[RobLoach]

Sounds good with me! Thanks a lot. 👍

I'll assign them over.

[bparker06]

@pepedopolous Could you maybe make a short video that shows this issue? I'm not able to reproduce your problem and nobody else has complained about this.

[pepedopolous]

Here's a video of the issue: https://youtu.be/nHk95ou33Yw

[ghost]

to make this issue abit more clear, this happens when running on KDE, regardless of which distro.

[bparker06]

Can you paste a log? Have you tried this in a different DE? What about adding/dropping new items into the playlist? Does that work?

[pepedopolous]

https://pastebin.com/UBGQeZzJ

[pepedopolous]

When I drag a rom from Dolphin (file manager) to the playlist a modal dialogue appears. When I click to confirm, the rom isn't added to the playlist.

[pepedopolous]

Hello again. I can confirm that the issue happens under KDE but not GNOME.

[ghost]

if it helps (guess my post above was not clear enough) i have experienced this issue months ago. This issue happens when you are using KDE, regardless of what distribution you are using (tested on live install of debian/ubuntu,suse,fedora,arch,mandriva, some other independent distros... etc as long as its KDE(at least on >= 5.12 this issue persist). switching to another desktop environment do no have the issue. video should show what the problem is on the Playlist tab, nothing is changed in the main window whatever list you click. Changing to Browse tab listing on main window works fine, but when you go back to Playlist tab, you are stuck with whatever was the last items displayed.

[bparker06]

I did some testing and this appears to be a KDE "bug".

First reported to KDE bug tracker in 2014: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337491

Then to Qt in 2015: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47696

This causes checks like this to fail:
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/ui/drivers/qt/ui_qt_window.cpp#L2524

Where it checks if the current tab is "Playlists", but Qt is returning "&Playlists" instead, apparently due to a KDE platform theme plugin injecting the & sign (presumably for keyboard navigation purposes) in the tab title.

[pepedopolous]

This workaround works for me. Add: -

[Development]
AutoCheckAccelerators=false

to ~/.config/kdeglobals.

From https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/5931#issuecomment-353175247

[bparker06]

Closing this since it is an unrelated upstream issue.