In layout mode, the magnetic borders are extending beyond the end of the object which is contrary to the way magnetic borders work in any KDE application, or even any application I've ever used. It makes it rather difficult to manipulate objects when there are lots of them on the page.
SVN commit 426217 by arwalker: BUG:107545 Borders are no longer infinite. M +66 -42 ksttoplevelview.cpp
Change version to 1.x