Bug 160942

Summary: Make kickoff in panel easier to hit
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Scott West <saynte>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: missive
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Scott West 2008-04-17 17:50:04 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

In the default configuration, the K-kickoff menu does not have a clickable area that includes the extreme lower-left corner. Since going to the menu is a very common action, and a corner is an easy place to navigate to, the menu should be able to be activated from the extreme lower-left corner. I often just kind of throw my mouse into that corner to get to it (as I imagine would be common), and it's a bit weird to have it not pick that up.
Comment 1 Dan Meltzer 2008-04-17 17:59:20 UTC 
If this is trunk, it's a regression that came into play with the woc stuff.  Don't worry, it's obvious to everyone and will not remain.
Comment 2 Dan Meltzer 2008-04-17 18:16:11 UTC 
Err, in fact it's already been fixed.
Comment 3 missive 2009-02-07 21:04:36 UTC 
The bottom left corner of the K-menu (the very corner of the screen) has stopped reacting to clicks again in svn compiled 2/7/09. (r922473)
Comment 4 missive 2009-02-07 21:37:54 UTC 
It seems to depend on how tall the panel is. Once the panel reaches a certain height, the whole bottom edge of the screen becomes inactive. So the K-menu and the task bar are much more difficult to use.

One way to work around the problem is to make the panel shorter, but I think the K-menu and task bar should extend all the way to the bottom edge and corner.