Bug 243591

Summary: 'Scrolling' on the panels
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: dE <de.techno>
Component: panelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: All   
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Description dE 2010-07-04 18:58:30 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                All

There should be a feature in KDE panels to allow scrolling of it's contents. For e.g. let's take a panel filled with icons... excessive icons such that the current panel size can no longer accommodate them; under such a case, the panels should have an option to allow a scroll so as to move certain icons out of the screen (to invisible areas) and bring in the invisible ones to the screen, just like the lancelot part showing 'places'.

This should be able to commence with combination of many applets and the onces which can change in size (like the taskbar) should have a setting to make it's width fixed or variable where a minimum will be defined and if it exceeds that (i.e. the items are too many in number) the scroll will become active instead of the taskbar compromising the size of the items.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Comment 1 FiNeX 2010-08-16 13:53:55 UTC 
I really hope this feature will never be implemented :-) 

IMHO it is very unusable.

If the problem is "how can I manage lots of widgets", the soulution is not adding a scrollable panel which add extra issues like "how can I know that there is something else if I scroll?" or "how would behave a hideable and scrollable panel?".

I'm sure a better solution can be found for that question (think to the new activities management, extendable panels, group of widgets and so on...) :-)
Comment 2 dE 2010-08-16 14:19:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I really hope this feature will never be implemented :-) 
> 
> IMHO it is very unusable.
> 
> If the problem is "how can I manage lots of widgets", the soulution is not
> adding a scrollable panel which add extra issues like "how can I know that
> there is something else if I scroll?" or "how would behave a hideable and
> scrollable panel?".
> 

Since the applets are custom made, the user will probably know what he had put on the panels. + there will be a scroll button appearing if there're more icons which are currently not visible, this way the user will know.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-01-23 22:42:09 UTC 
Plasma 4 has been unsupported for several years, and the proposed feature would be a confusing usability nightmare for most people.