Bug 489413

Summary:	The "Add Widget…" button on an empty panel has a rather unhelpful tooltip menu in Panel Configuration mode
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	cwo <cwo.kde>
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kdedev, niccolo.venerandi
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description cwo 2024-06-29 00:41:51 UTC

(Originally mentioned as an aside in #488792, filing as a new bug so it doesn't get lost)

SUMMARY

Empty panels permanently display an "Add widget…" button that opens the Widget Explorer, inviting users to make use of the empty panel they added. If the user is in Panel Configuration mode and hovers the mouse over this button, a tooltip menu opens as if the button were a regular widget. This tooltip, however, is completely useless. It only contains a title field and an entry for "Show Alternatives". The title field is empty. "Show Alternatives…", reasonably enough, doesn't do anything when clicked - there's really no alternative to an "Add widgets…" button. All together, this popup contains zero information and nothing for the user to meaningfully interact with.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right-click the desktop, "Enter Edit Mode…", Add Panel > Empty Panel
2. Right-click the new panel, "Show panel configuration"
3. Hover the mouse over the "Add widgets…" button on the empty panel.

OBSERVED RESULT

A useless popup.

EXPECTED RESULT

No popup.

(Alternatively, a popup that contains only the title of the button, "Add Widget…", instead of the empty title area. This has a rather niche use case: on a vertical panel, the "Add widget…" text is missing. A user unsure about what the button does, but who knows about the tooltips in Panel Configuration mode, or happens to be in that mode, might use this to figure out what the button does. My intuition is that this is too marginal to justify keeping the tooltip, but I don't have strong opinions on this)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

current neon dev
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.80
Qt Version: 6.7.0

Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-08-19 22:28:57 UTC

It looks like this has been fixed.
I'm unable to reproduce with Plasma 6.1.4 or git-master

With an empty panel, right clicked it, "Show Panel Configuration"
Hovered the mouse over "+ Add Widgets"
There is no tooltip

If you can still reproduce this, please feel free to re-open this bug report.