| Summary: | Widgets should be movable by pressing and holding Meta key | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | nuc <nucrap> |
| Component: | Containment | Assignee: | Sebastian Kügler <sebas> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | dlrobin874, nate, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | junior-jobs, usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 5.17.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
nuc
2020-01-12 17:30:11 UTC
This strikes me as a sensible idea, yeah. Maybe it could even visually indicate this to you by changing the cursor to an open grabby hand while the Alt key is held down. Yes, there definately needs to be something done IMO. I actually needed to ask in the forums how move or even remove a widget. ALT key was some intuitive idea I came up with but it didn't work either and it drove me nuts^^ Interestingly this feature has actually been mentioned in the Plasma 5.10 release notes:
> It is now possible to resize widgets in the desktop by dragging on their edges and moving them with Alt+left-click, just like regular windows
Apparently it has either not been implemented or it is broken.
Is this still wanted/needed? At the moment we have edit mode and it looks like the click/drag functionality in this report isn't still around, and the edit mode replaces the need for this. Thoughts? At this point it would be the Meta key not the alt key since we changed that a few releases ago, but yeah, I think at this point it isn't needed with all the other changes we've made in the stack since it was reported. |