Cannot click on GNOME menu/statusbar items when sth. is in fullscreen in GNOME 42
Likely Wayland-only
STR
- Open anything in fullscreen mode. E.g. you can press F11 here and your browser [tested with rpm-ostreed Firefox] should switch to fullscren, watch a fullscreen video on any popular website, use a special website or even watch a video with GNOME Videos in fullscreen. The only other requirement is that this fullscreen window has to be in focus.
- Now press the Super key or somehow else navigate to GNOMEs overview screen, so you see the Activities overview.
- Now try to click on the top right (clock, shutdown menu etc.) or e.g. on the current date (calendar etc.) or, if installed, GNOME extensions that have something (a panel) there like OpenWeather.
- I do have a touch screen here, and the issue is weirdly not reproducible when you touch! Edit: Oh it actually is, it worked just now, but trying it again it also fails. I need to click two or more times to open it actually, I'd say it's lottery-like, it works in 30% of the cases.
- Note: The issue is also not reproducible when you click on "Activities" to just close the Activities screen, that works.
What happens
Well nothing.
- The hover animation (background highlight) works.
- The click animation never appears (the background is a little bit darker)
- Worse of course, the menu never opens.
What should happen
- menu should always be possible to open
- also touch should behave the same as a click…
Workarounds
- switch the active window
- switch to another workspace (it seems IMHO properly to be separately per workspace)
- close the fullscreen mode
If I had to guess…
…somehow wrongly implemented this as a feature and did not thought of the fact that you can use a keyboard to open the activities overview. IMHO/I actually see no reason to disable that menu there at all.
Use cases
There are plenty ones, but e.g. when watching a video I may want to quickly have a look into my calendar to find out what whether I have time or whatever… or look at the weather etc. This is not possible without stopping the fullscreen mode or so (see above)…
System
GNOME 42.1, Wayland fedora:fedora/36/x86_64/silverblue Version: 36.20220512.1 (2022-05-12T20:00:12Z)
Originally reported at Fedora Ask. Noticed when upgrading from Fedora 35 to Fedora 36.
Edited by rugk