Bug 159322 - widgets are not placed correctly on panel
Summary: widgets are not placed correctly on panel
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2008-03-14 19:43 UTC by David
Modified: 2008-03-15 10:48 UTC (History)
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Description David 2008-03-14 19:43:41 UTC
Version:           svn (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

plasma is buggy when handling widgets inside a Panel:

- You can't move widgets to change its position within panel.
- If you add a widget, you'll have some widgets over others:
   As a example: remove Application launcher, and readd it via right click in panel. You will see how that Application launcher gets in the top-right of the panel and is unmovable from there. And more, in my case, System tray widget is on top of new device notifier.

So I suggest: Hability to drag and drop widgets inside panel, and why not, from desktop to panel and viceversa (isn't it the main idea behind plasma?)
Positioning all widgets as a block, and doesn't let anything to be on top of them (the same that kicker worked in the past).

How about it?
Comment 1 Alex Merry 2008-03-14 19:58:18 UTC
- You can't move widgets to change its position within panel

We know, we're working on it.

- If you add a widget, you'll have some widgets over others

What version are you using?  I don't get that behaviour.  And what steps exactly do you perform to place the widget on the panel?  eg: double-click in applet browser, or drag-and-drop...

Dragging from panel to desktop will come with the first point.  The other way has been implemented, I believe.

Please file separate bugs for separate issues.  This one can be about the second issue.
Comment 2 David 2008-03-14 20:02:38 UTC
I'm using SVN trunk (compiled the whole kde 2 hours ago). Try this from a default panel with default things in it) (all actions right clicking the panel and pressing add widgets):
remove application launcher
add application launcher.
see if it is at the right, and some things are over others.. if not, maybe I will need to create a new user to test with from the beginning
Comment 3 Dan Meltzer 2008-03-14 20:10:13 UTC
Yes.

The panel is still a work in progress

There are bugs about this already.

There are patches to improve it already

No need to file more.
Comment 4 Alex Merry 2008-03-14 20:18:50 UTC
You need to be more precise in your reports: I can think of at least two ways of adding widgets to the panel.

Double-clicking the widget in the "Add Widgets" dialog indeed places it on the right.  Which is what I'd expect.

Clicking-and-dragging to panel places it where you dragged it to (except that you can't place it on the far left when the panel runs up to the left edge - this is a bug).

If you get the same behaviour I described above, I'm going to mark this as invalid.  Rambling and unspecific bug reports are almost impossible to deal with.
Comment 5 Alex Merry 2008-03-14 20:25:25 UTC
I've filed the bug I mentioned as Bug 159323
Comment 6 David 2008-03-14 20:28:37 UTC
I didn't try to drag and drop, so you can mark it as invalid. I'm sorry :)
Comment 7 Alex Merry 2008-03-15 10:48:21 UTC
No problem, but if you can try to report only a single specific problem in each bug report in future, and be completely precise about how to reproduce it, that would be really helpful.