External URL links are not displayed on mouse click – no way to select the second link

[sauliusg]

JabRef version

5.6 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

Linuxmint-20.1

Checked with the latest development build

• I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
• I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

When an entry has both DOI and URL, left-clicking and holding on the "link" icon in the entry list does not activate the drop-down menu. When the mouse button is released, the first Web link in the link list is activated immediately, and there is not way to select another link from the list that appears afterwards. This problem appeared in at least JabRef 5.5 and persist through the 5.7 into the latest commut (main branch, commit c38d18b "Fix notifications that overlap task bar (#8775)").

To reproduce:

1. Start JabRef with the provided minimal library (from the provided doi-and-url.zip):

~/install/jabref/JabRef-5.7/bin/JabRef ~/doi-and-url.bib &

2. Left click the mouse on the "linked-chain" URL link icon. The drop-down list does not appear, contrary to what was expected:
   
3. Release the left mouse button. The first link is opened on a browser, and only then the drop-down list appears (but no selection is possible).
   doi-and-url.zip

Appendix

@Article{Azurmendi2002, author = {Hugo F. Azurmendi and C. Allen Bush}, journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, title = {Tracking Alignment from the Moment of Inertia Tensor ({TRAMITE}) of Biomolecules in Neutral Dilute Liquid Crystal Solutions}, year = {2002}, month = {feb}, number = {11}, pages = {2426--2427}, volume = {124}, doi = {10.1021/ja017524z}, file = {:by-author/A/Azurmendi/2002_Azurmendi_2426.pdf:PDF}, keywords = {biophysics; inertia tensor; liquid crystals; PDB; molecule alignment; bioinformatics}, owner = {saulius}, publisher = {American Chemical Society ({ACS})}, timestamp = {2022.05.16}, url = {https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bush/glycogroup/papers/Hugo/jacs124_2426.pdf}, }

[ThiloteE]

Edit: duplicate of #8758.

[sauliusg]

It seems that the author of the #8758 issue and myself step on the same bug using slightly different GUI interactions...

[Rifat951]

Hello,
I think i have found a way to solve it. Please have a look at the screenshot. I am able to select url and doi.

[Siedlerchr]

Thanks to @Rifat951 this issue is now fixed in the latest development version:

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/main and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

[sauliusg]

Thanks to @Rifat951 this issue is now fixed in the latest development version:

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/main and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

Yes, on my computer it now works as expected – both from the JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz archive [1] and compiled locally from the main branch commit 82aad89.

Thank you very much for the fix!

Ref.:
[1] JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz, downloaded from https://builds.jabref.org/main/JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz on 2022-05-18T17:34+03:00.

saulius@tasmanijos-velnias jabref/ $ ls -l ~/down/JabRef-5.7/JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 saulius saulius 191275104 2022-05-18 17:28 /home/saulius/down/JabRef-5.7/JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz
saulius@tasmanijos-velnias jabref/ $ sha1sum ~/down/JabRef-5.7/JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz 
43eeb9fe81e55387b359e1c9e857d2d350fc0910  /home/saulius/down/JabRef-5.7/JabRef-5.7-portable_linux.tar.gz

[sauliusg]

UPDATE:

the original bug was fixed, but it seems that a new bug has been introduced: in the patched version it is now impossible to click external links on entries that have only one url...

How to reproduce:

1. load any library that has only one external link (URL or DOI) attached to some entry, or remove the 'url =' line from the "doi-and-url.bib" from this entry and load it;
2. left click on the web-link ("chained-link") icon;

The link is not opened in a browser.

[Rifat951]

Let me recreate the mentioned issue and check which part needs to be fixed