Bug 457159

Summary: Panel icons lose positions when switching activities
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Chase Lau <arealperson1234+kde>
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgetsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.25.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: My current panel settings

Description Chase Lau 2022-07-26 13:02:18 UTC
SUMMARY
I incorrectly filed my last bug and fat fingered the Plasma version I'm on, sorry about that!

There is an issue present since at least 5.24.5 which causes icons pinned to the panel to lose their positions between activities. I have been able to reproduce this behavior as such:

1. Setup two activities with applications pinned to the panel in each activity. It's important to have both distinct and shared pins (e.g. some of the applications are marked "Pin to Task Manager" > "On All Activities").
2. Move around some of the pinned applications on one activity. 
3. Switch to the other activity.

You would expect to not see movement on the activity you did _not_ switch pins on, but instead I'm finding that the applications which are pinned in both activities move around in such a way that they are bunched up. Attached is a video that helps explain.

OBSERVED RESULT
Pinned applications are moved without user interaction

EXPECTED RESULT
Pinned applications are not moved without user interaction.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Here is the observed behavior: https://imgur.com/SG16zCs
Comment 1 Chase Lau 2022-07-26 13:03:33 UTC
Created attachment 150921 [details]
My current panel settings
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 20:14:14 UTC
Sorry it took us so long to get to this. I can't reproduce the issue on Fedora 41, with Plasma 6.2.5 on Wayland. Are you still able to reproduce it there, or with similarly up-to-date software?
Comment 3 Chase Lau 2025-01-12 18:50:39 UTC
I think it's fair to close this one. I just tried to recreate it as well with the latest Fedora and I wasn't able to. Thanks for checking in!
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-01-12 19:08:56 UTC
Thanks for following up!