appflowy: kde windows not appearing

[alexyao2015]

Nixpkgs version

• Unstable (25.05)

Describe the bug

Any actions in the app that require opening an external windows to the window manager do not work. Some actions that do this and do not work include export to HTML/MD and uploading images.

I am running kde as my desktop environment. Not sure if this occurs with another desktop environment or not.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a page
2. Click share -> export
3. Fail to see the save window popup when exporting a page

Expected behaviour

Windows appear

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Additional context

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System metadata

Will update when at pc

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@DarkOnion0 @speed2exe

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[DarkOnion0]

Hi, thanks for reporting this issue. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it on my computer. However, I agree that the time to open a system window from appflowy is pretty significant, but it opens. I'm running Gnome using Wayland, so this may be related to KDE, Wayland (I don't know if you're using it or not) or just simply appflowy.

NOTE: speed2exe is not really an appflowy maintainer. However, @evris99 could help, since he expressed the will to become one.

[khorshuheng]

This is not limited to KDE - we have seen similar behavior on MacOS as well. I will create an issue to track this on the AppFlowy side instead and share the link here.

[khorshuheng]

AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy#7604

[khorshuheng]

@alexyao2015 Can you check if kdialog is available on your system?

[emaryn]

It doesn't hurt to add zenity to the PATH since zenity is the last one tried. I've tried building it from source before, but could never generate the required dart code.