Electron apps display a gray title bar on KDE F42

Hello,

I’m new to Fedora, and I’m experiencing an issue with Discord’s title bar. It shouldn’t be there in the first place, but it appears in gray. After today’s Discord 0.0.89 update, there are now two title bars, one in gray and the other one dark (native to Discord).

Should I report this bug to Discord, KDE, Fedora or someone else?

Regards,
David

Before reporting, you could check if the same isssue appears with other Electron apps. If it does, then it wouldn’t be Discord-specific.

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You are correct. I tried Slack, which is also an Electron app, and the same gray title bar showed up when it shouldnt. I changed the title of this thread to reflect this.

Is this a Fedora issue or a KDE issue?

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You would need to check the electron version used.

Electron is horrendous, Apps are always using different, often EOL versions of chromium.

And no matter what, report to the makers of the package.

You could also report to Electron itself.

Best to report everywhere, Discord and Slack are not short on money I guess

If this is only happening on F42 Beta but not F41, you could also post a question in the Fedora Quality Matrix room. They might advise you if it’s appropriate to raise the issue with Fedora too.

@tqcharm I asked in the Fedora Quality Matrix room. Let’s see where they recommend posting before I start spamming everyone… :sweat_smile:

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Could you post a screenshot of what you’re seeing? I’m not sure what exactly you’re observing.

@ngompa I see this:

That is normal. Electron apps running on Linux typically do have a title bar unless the application explicitly asks to not have one. So this is an Electron thing.

If it is an electron thing, I will report it to electron. I’m not keen on normalizing buggy behaviour.

Each Electron app has to implement client side decorations manually and write code to request server side decorations to be switched off. The default is to use server side decorations when available in Electron. So the app has switch its behavior to do differently.

I don’t know how far my bug report will get, but at least now it’s up there:

I was advised at the above bug report at Electron to report it to Discord, so that’s what I did. I filed it as request number 54029924. Let’s hope they look into it.

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