| Summary: | Widget Explorer can open potentially far away from a panel you want to drag widgets into; consider making it a free-floating window | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | Widget Explorer | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, matheus4551, simonandric5 |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | kde:
VisualDesign+
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| Version: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Nate Graham
2018-02-16 18:37:58 UTC
I'm not very convinced. If I launch dolphin from kickoff, I don't expect it to be in the bottom left. Widget Exp, can be opened from: - toolbox - context menu - keyboard shortcut - panel toolbox Right now it's in sync with the follow alt+tab, and meta+tab dialogs. We'd lose that to be in sync a button that doesn't really have anything to do with the widget explorer other than it exists. I just re-read my last sentence, it made no sense. *We'd lose that to be in sync with a button that doesn't really have anything to do with the widget explorer other containing an entry to open it. Fair enough, and thanks for the clarification! Given the fact that it can be opened from so many different methods, I almost wonder if making it a free-floating window might not work better. But this is such a minor idea that I don't think it makes sense to keep a Bugzilla ticket open to track it. It used to be back in 4.0-4.5 It would have a lot of advantages, you can move it out the way, it can be nearer to the panel... I'd be for it OK, re-opening, then! Needs a mockup from VDG. I don't like undoing their initial designs without getting them "signed off" I don't think it'd work as-is but floating. Old floating: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/.vhost/www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/screenshots/plasma-add-widget.png Then it was this: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/plasma-widgets-workspace Then it's what it is now right, as-is-but-floating wouldn't work. A square-ish free-floating window would make more sense IMHO. I think we should make the Widget Explorer a vertical pane again, like in late KDE 4. (In reply to matheus4551 from comment #9) > I think we should make the Widget Explorer a vertical pane again, like in > late KDE 4. Sorry, I mean horizontal. Brain's not working today :P *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 365071 *** |
