[Bug]: Clicking tray icon does not create pop up

[AltruisticRambler]

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• This is a bug, not a question or a configuration issue.
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Bug description

Hia! Quick shoutout for the excellent quality of the client and server softwares for Nextcloud - this quite has changed my digital management of everything in my life, and I couldn't be happier! <3

on to the actual issue :)

I use nextcloud's desktop client via flatpak on my Steam Deck, and have noticed for quite some time (~ >6months) that clicking the tray icon for nextcloud fails to throw up the little pop-up menu that'd let me see recent activity / monitor sync status. Right clicking the icon & selecting 'settings' works fine! It's just the lil status window that I'm unable to summon.

I only mention that I'm specifically on steam deck because I figure it's possible one or two NC devs have got one handy, and that it might be easy to replciate the environment to help troubleshoot / verify the issue :) Still, here are a few more deets on what specifically I'm running=

System specs

Operating System: SteamOS 3.7.19 Build: 20251124.1
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.11.11-valve26-1-neptune-611-gb3afa9aa9ae7 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Partition: B
Processors: 8 × AMD Custom APU 0932
Memory: 14,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Custom GPU 0932
Manufacturer: Valve
Product Name: Galileo

Nextcloud specs

Nextcloud Desktop Client com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud 4.0.4 stable system
Flatpak 1.15.91

Steps to reproduce

Run Nextcloud desktop (either manually or through autostart),
then click its tray icon.

Expected behavior

The small status window (showing recent activity & current sync status) should appear!

Which files are affected by this bug

n/a

Operating system

Linux

Which version of the operating system you are running.

SteamOS

Package

Official Linux AppImage

Nextcloud Server version

Nextcloud Hub 10 (31.0.11)

Nextcloud Desktop Client version

4.0.4

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?

Fresh desktop client install

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

Encryption is Disabled

Are you using an external user-backend?

• Default internal user-backend
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Nextcloud Server logs

(attached!)

Additional info

No response

[AltruisticRambler]

DesktopClientDebugArchive.zip
nextcloudServer.log

[nilsding]

Thanks for providing the debug archive and the detailed report (I sometimes use the Steam Deck for testing the Flatpak myself :D)

I saw the following in the logs which suggest that the UI uses an older version from the QML cache:

2026-02-01 14:15:27:082 [ warning nextcloud.gui.systray /run/build/nextcloud-client/src/gui/systray.cpp:121 ]:	"qrc:/qml/src/gui/tray/MainWindow.qml:152 Type UserStatusSelectorPage unavailable\nqrc:/qml/src/gui/UserStatusSelectorPage.qml:30 UserStatusSelector is not a type\n"

Could you try to stop the app, remove the ~/.var/app/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud/cache/Nextcloud/qmlcache directory, and then try to start the app again?