Bug 191162

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Moving a desktop widget is very smooth and intuitive - just drag-n-drop to the exact target location, whether on desktop or panel. The converse operation, however, is very cumbersome:

In order to move an icon around the panel, you must first enter the panel settings mode, either by clicking the panel's settings icon or right-clicking on the icon, then selecting Panel Options, and then selecting Panel Settings from the menu. Then you can drag-n-drop the icon, and finally you must close the panel settings mode by clicking the panel configuration window's little red X button, or, if you figured this out, by right-clicking anywhere, which has the side effect of opening a context menu of whatever u clicked on, and then dismissing this context menu (the escape key doesn't seem to close the settings mode, btw - a separate suggestion).

Moving the panel icon off to the desktop is even worse - all the above is still necessary, but in addition, once the icon is dragged off the panel to the desktop, it reappears at at a fixed position at the top of the screen regardless of where it was dropped, and when the whole operation is over, u need to drag it again from the top of the screen to its final position on the desktop.

This is way too cumbersome and unintuitive...

The expected behavior should be just as smooth and intuitive as when dragging a desktop widget: just click on a panel icon, drag it to its target position (whether on the panel or the desktop), and release. drag-n-drop.