Bug 155165

Summary:	Ability to remove all icons trough the "Add Widgets" dialog
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Niels van Mourik <niels>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Niels van Mourik 2008-01-06 01:08:18 UTC

Version:           SVN revision 757663 (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.3 
OS:                Linux

It's not logical from a user's perspective that he's able to remove all the icons from the 'currently running widgets' section of the 'add widgets' dialog. Sure they in fact are widgets but I think internally the 'Show Icons' option from the 'Configure Desktop' dialog does something else then remove widgets directly.

Comment 1 Christopher Blauvelt 2008-01-06 01:15:39 UTC

Nope.  It destroys the applets and rescan's ~/Desktop and re-creates the applets afterward.  This is exactly what the "Add Widgets" Dialog does.  I agree however that it might be better if the "Generic Icon" is hidden under "Add Widgets," especially since they're pretty useless when added through the dialog.  Can a variable be added to the .desktop files to hide them from the "Add Widgets" dialog.

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-06 01:22:28 UTC

such changes would compromise our ability to move away from presenting only a traditional (and fundamentally broken in concept) desktop-is-a-filemanager concept.