Bug 168917

Summary:	Desktop widgets entirely under other widgets are inaccessible
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Ryan Thompson <rct+bugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	null
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Ryan Thompson 2008-08-11 16:02:18 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.1 
OS:                Linux

Any desktop widget that ends up entirely covered by other widgets is impossible to access without moving other widgets. In general, this isn't a huge problem, but it occurs frequently when adding widgets, especially if you have placed a large widget in the upper left corner, where new widgets appear. Having to move this large widget every time a new widget is added gets annoying. My suggestion would be to allow middle clicking to send a widget to the back of the stack.

Comment 1 Unknown 2008-10-01 19:44:26 UTC

Additional suggestion: 
make it so that whenever I click "Add widget", I will get to drag that widget to my favorite place immediately. That means I will have the drag option even before the widget appears on my desktop. In this case, I can always drag it somewhere unproblematic where it does not interfere with other widgets.

Comment 2 Ryan Thompson 2010-07-09 03:45:07 UTC

This bug is quite old by plasma standards, and plasma has changed a lot since then. I can't remember having this problem any time in recent memory. Has it explicitly been fixed?

Ah, I just checked. No, it's not fixed, per se, but you really have to try to trigger the bug, so it's probably not something that people would normally encounter.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:18:28 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better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.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