Bug 353058

Summary: Make it possible to resize the panel popup / Make better use of large screens
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Ralf Jung <post>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aspotashev, bugzilla, notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.4.1   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ralf Jung 2015-09-22 18:31:49 UTC 
The panel popup (the thing that slides up in the bottom-right corner when I click, for example, the networking icon) is pretty small: On my 24" full-HD screen, it uses <10% of the screen space. This means, for example, that ~6 networks are visible at the same time in the Plasma-NM widget.  That's not much, and much less than previously with KDE4. Having to search something with such a small "window", and so much unused space around, is pretty sad.

So, maybe it would be useful to make that widget resizable, so that I can make better use of all my screen space. Or maybe the widget could automatically become larger on larger screens.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Janet 2016-02-21 23:21:49 UTC 
Please no automatic. There are people who love to have small desktop elements on a huge screen and people who love (or need) to have huge desktop elements on a small screen...

All widgets with a pin can be resized with pressed Alt key and right mouse key. Not obvious but works. Alas not all popup widgets have a pin... If they would and if there would be some hint how to resize it would be of great help.
Comment 2 Janet 2016-02-22 00:01:32 UTC 
Duplicate of Bug 332512 ?
Comment 3 Marco Martin 2016-05-04 12:14:44 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 332512 ***