Bug 266112

Summary:	Panel does not dynamically resize upon screen rotation
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	ale.forums2
Component:	panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ale.forums2, bloodse3ker, gortab, jnelson-kde, myriam, thisguy642
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ale.forums2 2011-02-12 01:13:40 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

I am using kde 4.6 on a tablet-convertible laptop.
When I want to use the tablet in portrait orientation and rotate the screen,
thus from 1280x800 to 800x1280, right direction
all of the content in the right portion of the panel get out of the screen border and are thus not usable.
The only way to make the all panel visible is to make it by default shorter than 800 pixels.
The results do not change whether you have a flexible or fixed size spacer in your panel.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
launch the display control panel in system settings
rotate the screen right

Actual Results:  
Upon screen rotation and change of orientation from landscape to portrait,
the panel appears to be cut and parts of it is missing
all of the panel content that lies beyond the first 800 pixels (my screen has 1280x800 resolution) is outside of the screen border 

Expected Results:  
the panel resizes automatically keeping all of its content within the visible screen
this should probably depend on automatic resizing of the spacers that you have inside the panel or the icons of the widgets

Comment 1 Christian L 2011-02-27 16:23:18 UTC

I'd like to confirm that. I am regularly working in portrait mode and it's annoying if one has to manually adjust the panel after each startup. 

Version: KDE 4.6.
System: OpenSuse 11.4 RC2

Cheers.
Chris

Comment 2 Jon Nelson 2011-04-13 21:04:42 UTC

Confirm. Possible dups: bug 265051 and bug 249524.

Comment 3 ray-ven 2011-07-01 13:24:39 UTC

panel will not be set to maximize when changing display

Comment 4 Jon Nelson 2011-07-25 22:24:18 UTC

Still a problem as of KDE 4.7RC2.

Comment 5 Boris Yonchev 2012-01-06 21:59:03 UTC

I still got that problem on KDE 4.7.4

Comment 6 thisguy642 2014-04-16 18:27:12 UTC

Still an issue in KDE 4.11.5.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:50:55 UTC

Hello!

This bug report 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 bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present 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