Bug 156244

Summary:	Alt + click on plasmoid could move locked plasmoids
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Mike <mike>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alan.christopher.jenkins, aseigo, bluedzins, l.lunak, pano_90
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Mike 2008-01-20 16:57:03 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

It would be nice if alt+click on a plasmoid would allow movement.  I think it would be a very natural movement for people who are used to alt+clicking to move a normal window.

It is fairly hard to alt click a window accidentally so new users shouldn't be bothered by it.

If you have a plasmoid which resizes (like the cartoon one) then it is possible that it will be covered by another nearby plasmoid (ie the notes one).  Now if you want to move the cartoon from under the note to read the great punchline then you have to return to normal mode (assuming you were in show desktop mode), right click on the desktop, unlock it, go back to showdesktop mode and then move the plasmoid, return to the desktop and relock it.

Comment 1 jamese 2008-01-21 12:41:18 UTC

I was thinking about this today when the photo plasmoid covered up some icons on the desktop. Rather than having to move the plasmoid to get to the icons I had the idea of a button "send to back" - like the buttons in graphics programs. It could go on the plasmoid frame under the spanner.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-01-22 10:51:33 UTC

I'm not sure if this is even possible - Alt+LMB is taken by KWin.

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-06-15 11:37:18 UTC

<configurable key>+LMB+drag would solve any conflict. 

Idea is great.

Comment 4 Grósz Dániel 2008-06-17 21:11:52 UTC

KWin handles Alt+LMB in some special way in this case, doesn't it? It does not start to move the whole Plasma. Couldn't it be achieved (with some KWin modifications, if need) that it KWin passes the Alt+Click to the window (Plasma) in this case?

Comment 5 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-06-22 19:49:28 UTC

I bumped again with this report, previously I missed somehow this little detail "locked". 

The problem is this, I would like to configure the desktop and leave as few as possible "entry points" where you can change the desktop. This way I will feel safe for my computer (that by accident I won't change my polished settings) and I feel safe for everybody I set the computers, and those guys will be safer because they could not unconsciously break something.

Thus, if this is really, really wanted I think the only solution would be configurable behaviour, so it would be possible to turn off such feature.

So I get back that "idea is great" because I don't see all the benefit, with keyboard shortcuts for lock/unlock:
* unlock
* move
* lock

No extra code in KDE4 required, no additional option, and job is done (plasmoid is moved).

Comment 6 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2008-09-12 14:48:11 UTC

so whats the current status?
The idea of alt + click is pretty handy, because it saves you a lot of clicking.

Comment 7 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-09 06:52:52 UTC

alt+drag == hidden behaviour.