Bug 353273

Summary: Please consider adding better support for vertical panels
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Marc Haber <mh+kde-bugs>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.4.1   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marc Haber 2015-09-28 12:31:21 UTC 
Hi,

on my small-screened laptop, with only 1366x768 pixels, vertical resolution is a scarce resource. I would, therefore, sacriface horizontal pixels to win vertical pixels. To do so, having the panel on the left or right screen edge would be the best solution.

When I pull the Task Manager plasmoid to a vertical panel, it needs to be wide so that the window titles have room to be displayed. This causes other plasmoids (such as launchers and the K menu) to be scaled up to ridiculous sizes, taking up like a fourth of the (precious!) screen height.

Please consider implementing some measures that would improve usability of a vertical panel. One idea would probably be to implement a container of some sort that would allow one to group together square formed plasmoids so that many of the can be displayed side to side of each other in a vertical panel or over and under each other on a horizontal panel instead of scaling them up.

Thanks!

Greetings
Marc


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2016-07-20 14:01:59 UTC 
> Please consider implementing some measures that would improve usability of a vertical panel.

Please suggest them as individual bugs on the component that does not work properly in the vertical panel

Generic "make X better" don't help us in a bug tracker and will get ignored