Bug 166539 - resize / placing strategy for plasmoids
Summary: resize / placing strategy for plasmoids
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2008-07-14 15:36 UTC by Bartemius Crouch
Modified: 2018-06-08 20:27 UTC (History)
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Description Bartemius Crouch 2008-07-14 15:36:14 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

One should be able to give a movement/resize strategy for plasmoids.

Some plasmoids like the comicstrip tend to resize from time to time (eg a square comic appears). Unfortunately this can make the plasmoid to be partly off screen, altough there wouldve been enough space above/right of it. Itd be nice if it was possible to define some kind of anchor or something for plasmoids so this wont happen so often. It could as well be solved by a panel, thats "totally unimportant" (no snapping and stuff).

greetings from me
Comment 1 Bartemius Crouch 2008-07-14 15:42:36 UTC
this was supposed to be a wish not a bug, can i change it somehow?
Comment 2 Unknown 2009-03-29 20:33:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1-r3)
> Installed from:    Gentoo Portage
> 
> One should be able to give a movement/resize strategy for plasmoids.
> 
> Itd be nice if it was possible to define some kind of anchor or
> something for plasmoids so this wont happen so often.

I can see this bug is open for some time now. Don't know about other plasmoids, but this is _extremely_ annoying in Comic. I would like my comic "box" at the bottom right corner, but when there's a bigger strip it acts stupid, here's the story with Garfield (pictures!!! ;) -> http://roslin.mlodyinteligent.pl/~lazy_bum/tmp/comic/
1 - normal placement
2 - next strip is bigger, plasmoid gets out of the screen
3 - sometimes it magically returns like that, so all is visible
4 - going back to the first strip and it uses an "anchor" in the top left corner, so the original placement is broken. One has to unblock plasmoids, move it back and enjoy.... until next big strip.
[if it wont return in step 3, you have to unblock the plasmoids etc etc.]

This could be solved by new option suggested by reporter like "set anchor in": [ ] top \ [ ] bottom and [ ] left \ [ ] right and then the plasmoid would not run away from the screen and expand in proper way.

Don't know if I should open new bug about this, it fits here imho.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:27:53 UTC
Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham