Bug 433199

Summary: Configure vertical panel: configuration button is obscured by horizontal panel
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Frank Steinmetzger <dev+kde>
Component: PanelAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.21.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Screenie showing the vertical panel’s button being obscured by the horizontal panel

Description Frank Steinmetzger 2021-02-18 19:56:14 UTC
Created attachment 135865 [details]
Screenie showing the vertical panel’s button being obscured by the horizontal panel

I normally have a horizontal bottom panel with full width. Trying to reproduce an issue, I created a temporary vertical panel at the left of the screen. After I went into Edit Mode, I opened the vertical panel’s configuration and noticed that the Configure button at the bottom was obscured by my main panel.

Depending on the panels’ z-order, the Configure button itself might also be unreachable.

I have two ideas for a possible solution:
- make the configuration panel always on top, even above any panel
- temporarily hide all other panels than the one being edited, as if they were set to auto-hide. But this might be counter-productive in super-specific setups that use several panels in unison. OTOH, it would also solve the problem of the Configure button being unreachable.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-02-19 18:55:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 417523 ***