Bug 456884

Summary:	Add Ability to set "New tasks appear" to the top or bottom when using a vertical panel
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	robh.jake
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.24.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description robh.jake 2022-07-18 20:26:03 UTC

At the moment, you can only change how new tasks appear when using IOTM on a horizontal panel (to the left or right). I'm wanting to set the vertical IOTM to make new tasks appear to the top however such an option is not available in the Widget settings. Would it be possible to add it in please?

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-07-19 17:17:39 UTC

In https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/738, I don't see an explanation for why this option is only available when using a horizontal panel, so sure, we can do that.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-07-20 17:28:56 UTC

In trying to implement this, I found out why it wasn't already done: because we use a QtQuick Flow object to manage the layout, which doesn't support bottom-to-top layouting. We would need to implement something super custom to get that, or else patch Flow in Qt.

Either way, I think the effort required does not justify the work, so we'll have to keep this the way it is, sorry!

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-07-20 17:30:00 UTC

Git commit 400768906ee4e4c81a75516ceb4c60ecc1f2e557 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 20/07/2022 at 17:28.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

applets/taskmanager: comment why we don't support bottom-to-top layout

M  +2    -0    applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ConfigBehavior.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/400768906ee4e4c81a75516ceb4c60ecc1f2e557