Bug 403023

Summary: [feature] - items overlap when there are too many widgets on the dock
Product: [Unmaintained] lattedock Reporter: Savor d'Isavano <anohigisavay>
Component: applicationAssignee: Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Savor d'Isavano 2019-01-09 08:54:07 UTC
Created attachment 117350 [details]
Reproduction of the bug

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a dock and change its type to "Panel"
2. Add a latte plasmoid on the left of the splitter, and some other widgets on the right of the splitter.
3. Open a lot of applications

OBSERVED RESULT
The icons overlap

EXPECTED RESULT
Maybe the widget on the left could push the rightmost widgets off the screen (but then we need a scrolling mechanism)
Or whatever approach that makes sense

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.53.0
Qt Version: 5.12.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Michail Vourlakos 2019-01-09 09:58:25 UTC
Have you enabled decrease applets when needed in Tweaks page?
Comment 2 Savor d'Isavano 2019-01-10 17:30:39 UTC
(In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #1)
> Have you enabled decrease applets when needed in Tweaks page?

Oh yes that would work somehow. But the icons tend to get too small and some widgets will behave differently.
Comment 3 Savor d'Isavano 2019-01-10 17:37:47 UTC
(In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #2)
> (In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #1)
> > Have you enabled decrease applets when needed in Tweaks page?
> 
> Oh yes that would work somehow. But the icons tend to get too small and some
> widgets will behave differently.

IMHO it should well-behave no matter what option combinations a user applies. It might not be the case for hidden, hacky tweaks like manually modifying configuration files though. Just my personal, very biased opinion.
Comment 4 Michail Vourlakos 2019-01-14 16:54:39 UTC
(In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #3)
> (In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #2)
> > (In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #1)
> > > Have you enabled decrease applets when needed in Tweaks page?
> > 
> > Oh yes that would work somehow. But the icons tend to get too small and some
> > widgets will behave differently.
> 

so what is the proposal to improve this?
Comment 5 Savor d'Isavano 2019-01-21 04:18:51 UTC
(In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #4)
> (In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #3)
> > (In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #2)
> > > (In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #1)
> > > > Have you enabled decrease applets when needed in Tweaks page?
> > > 
> > > Oh yes that would work somehow. But the icons tend to get too small and some
> > > widgets will behave differently.
> > 
> 
> so what is the proposal to improve this?

I would suggest how it works in the GNOME extension Dash-to-Dock: the overflowing icons will be hidden, but by placing the pointer at the left/right edges the content will scroll. (I'm okay with mouse wheel too).
Comment 6 Michail Vourlakos 2019-01-25 21:17:01 UTC
(In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #5)
> (In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #3)
> > > (In reply to Savor d'Isavano from comment #2)
> > > > (In reply to Michail Vourlakos from comment #1)
> left/right edges the content will scroll. (I'm okay with mouse wheel too).

sounds ok for me... I will leave it open for some time in case someone tries to implement this... personally I am not that much interested
Comment 7 Michail Vourlakos 2019-02-09 15:05:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 404123 ***