`KDE global menu widget' and `titlebar application menu button' broken with krita 5.1.1 release, 5.1.1 plus and 5.2.x next except official appimages

[iliekprogrammar]

tldr my current workaround is to use the official krita appimages. (krita release, krita plus, krita next)

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Previously, in krita 5.1.0, the global menu widget works correctly. Updating to 5.1.1, now the global menu widget do not display anything. also, the titlebar application menu button is nonresponsive - nothing happens when clicked.

this issue occurs in the krita build of the official manjaro repos, the builds and pkgbuilds by zlnf on AUR (krita-plus-bin, krita-plus-git, krita-next-bin, krita-next-git). this issue does not occur for any of the official krita appimages (see tldr). i don’t use flatpak.

for reference here’s the global menu widget working in krita 5.1.1 plus appimage:

and here’s the titlebar application menu button working in krita 5.1.1 plus appimage:

i’ve thought of reporting this to upstream but decided against it because it’s not exactly obvious which software is the problem, if its an upstream issue at all.

[Aragorn]

I can confirm the problem. Krita does not show a global menu anymore on my system either, and there’s also no way of making it display a menu by any other means.

[iliekprogrammar]

there’s one workaround i forgot to write:

(in KDE) go into system settings → startup and shutdown → background services → then halt the application menus daemon which affects all applications’ window menu. you may need to relaunch krita or relogin or restart. for reference:

this completly disable global menu widget but ensures applications to always show the hidden window menu, kinda like how default firefox currently works when you press ALT.

[iliekprogrammar]

Update: recently, i’ve updated my system and everything works again. possibly because of the arrival of the new KDE release.