Bug 367631

Summary:	Lack of feedback when adding widget to the panel make it difficult (especially near task manager)
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Simone Gaiarin <simgunz>
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.7.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Simone Gaiarin 2016-08-21 09:38:02 UTC

When I drag a widget to add it to the desktop a blue square appears to show the position where the widget will be positioned. This doesn't happen when I try to add a widget to the panel.
It's true that the other widgets move around to show the user that the widget will be placed in the empty space.

The problem is that most of the empty space of my panel is actually occupied by the task manager (icon only task manager), so when a widget is dragged over this empty space there is no feedback on whether the task manager widget has shrunken or not. Because of this often releasing the mouse button causes the widget to not be placed correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an empty panel
2.Add icon only task manager to the panel
3.Try to add another plasmoid by dragging it to the empty space on the panel

Actual Results:  
Unless the plasmoid is positioned in the extreme right of the panel, the placement of the plasmoid will fail with no clear reason to the user

Expected Results:  
Showing a blue square where the plasmoid will be placed can be used as a feedback by the user to understand if he placed the plasmoid correctly before releasing the mouse button.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-11-04 21:06:01 UTC

Hmm, when I do this, the widget is always correctly placed at the end of the empty space that the Task Manager takes up. Can you confirm whether this is still a problem in Plasma 5.17?

Comment 2 Simone Gaiarin 2019-11-05 06:10:29 UTC

I have tested this and the widget is always placed correctly now, so I think that even without a visual feedback (besides the widgets moving around) we can consider it fixed.