Bug 160445

Summary: Horizontal and vertical panels overlap
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Grósz Dániel <groszdanielpub>
Component: panelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: bluedzins, finex, list
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Screenshot showing some problems in vertical plasma panel
(image) Configuration UI unacessible for overlapping panels

Description Grósz Dániel 2008-04-05 23:29:06 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

If there is both a horizontal an a vertical panel, they overlap so that the one on which I clicked last time hides the other in the corner. A horizontal panel should make the vertical panel shorter so that it does not overlap with the horizontal panel.
Comment 1 Marcelo Sales 2008-06-14 04:52:16 UTC
Created attachment 25321 [details]
Screenshot showing some problems in vertical plasma panel

Some problems in plasma panel when it's placed vertically:
1. Much space wasted above and below clock applet. Also, there's no option in
it's configuration to setup font sizes, so the hour is displayed as big as the
panel is wide and date is displayed in minuscule size much below the hour (date
is not shown in this screenshot, but the described behaviour is easily
verifiable).
2. Pager is awfully placed in panel (just aesthetics, though. No harm here)
3. Notifier icon too big and disproportional, it grows until it's as wide as
the panel)
4. Wasted space below notifier
5. When the clock is clicked, the calendar is shown at a very odd position. The
same happens when the notifier is clicked.
Comment 2 Marcelo Sales 2008-06-14 04:54:58 UTC
Sorry about my post with the screenshot, wrong bug
Comment 3 Marco Martin 2008-06-14 10:46:40 UTC
in 4.1 you can configure the width/height of the panel, making it overlap or not with other panels is something that is the user to decide
Comment 4 Antonio Vinci 2008-11-30 12:19:45 UTC
Created attachment 28944 [details]
(image) Configuration UI unacessible for overlapping panels
Comment 5 FiNeX 2010-08-15 12:08:47 UTC
Bug #187402 suggest to merge the two panels to solve this problem.

http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=50572
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:23:39 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