Bug 492172

Summary:	widgets cant be dragged from panel to desktop
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Liz Lee <waynejwoww>
Component:	"Manage Desktop and Panels" window	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, niccolo
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.2.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screencap of notes widget disappearing debug_info

Description Liz Lee 2024-08-25 15:33:59 UTC

SUMMARY
widget cant be dragged from a panel to the desktop.
it works the other way (desktop -> panel) though, so one expects that it is working this way (panel -> desktop) too, but it does not.
it is even worse: the widget disappears - but the widget counter in the "add widget menu" still counts it.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. try to drag a widget attached to a panel from the panel (back) to the desktop in the "show panel configuration"-overview.

OBSERVED RESULT
widget disappears. surpisingly the widget counter in the "add widget" menu still counts it.

EXPECTED RESULT
the widget should either stay on the panel (when it is in fact for some reason impossible to actually move it back to the desktop) OR should be moved to the desktop correctly.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
actually, moving widgets from the panel to the desktop has been majorly flawed since the release of plasma 5. (i'm talking about plasma 6.1.4 now).

Comment 1 Niccolò Venerandi 2024-08-27 12:36:18 UTC

This should not happen. Could you provide a screen recording of the bug to assess what might be wrong?

Comment 2 Liz Lee 2024-08-27 12:58:51 UTC

Created attachment 173001 [details]
screencap of notes widget disappearing

yes, in the attached screen capture video you can see:

1. according to the counter bubble of the "add widget" menu there are supposedly 2 "notes" widgets already placed somewhere (except they are not, they disappered when i tried to move them to the desktop some time ago)

2. after placing the the "notes" widget i tried to move it to the desktop. that's where it suddenly disappeared.

3. after the notes widget disappeared the bubble counter increased to 3.

Comment 3 Niccolò Venerandi 2024-08-28 07:33:58 UTC

I understand. I'm afraid I need you to do one more step so I can understand what's going on:

- Open Konsole, run `plasmashell --replace &> debug_info`

Then, drag and drop a panel widget from the panel to the desktop.

After that, close Konsole - this should "crash" your plasmashell session, start it again by opening krunner (alt+space) and typing `plasmashell` over there (or just reboot), and send me the debug_info file!

Comment 4 Liz Lee 2024-08-28 09:16:38 UTC

Created attachment 173035 [details]
debug_info

of course, you can find the debug_info in the attachments

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-09-20 00:33:09 UTC

This is fixed in Plasma 6.2!