| Summary: | Kickoff menu not centering on the screen horizontally when centered on the panel and it *could* be centered within existing constraints | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Krystian Kacprzak <krystian.kacprzak.98> |
| Component: | Panel | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | ASSIGNED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | hypertextcoffee, mikel5764, nate, niccolo.venerandi, noahadvs |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 6.3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500390 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Expected behaviour shown in Kubuntu 24.04 on Plasma 5.27
Issue still persisting on Plasma 6.3.0 Sadly this is not the case either |
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Description
Krystian Kacprzak
2025-02-03 18:07:31 UTC
This is fixed for me in Plasma 6.3.0. Created attachment 178602 [details]
Issue still persisting on Plasma 6.3.0
As can be seen - this issue is still present on Plasma 6.3.0
In that case it's also expected: if it centered on the screen, it would no longer appear above the button on the panel. If you un-pin or close some apps, you'll see that it becomes centered as you want. Created attachment 178611 [details]
Sadly this is not the case either
Thank you for your help and assistance.
As can be seen - now I have only 5 icons on my taskbar. If the menu centered on the screen, it would still be above the button. However, the menu still centers on the button, not the screen/panel. Even if the menu is expanded horizontally, it still always center on the button.
In my opinion, it would be beneficial for end user to have a toggle/option to choose if it should center on the button or the screen (similarly to how Andromeda launcher does it)
Hmm, that does seem like a bug based on my understanding of the current implementation. Re-opening! Do I understand correctly, that under current implementation, if: 1. The menu is wide enough, or 2. There aren't enough icons on the panel So that opened menu *could* be both centered and above menu button (fully? partially?) then it should be centered? That seems a bit inconsistent from my point of view. Supposedly I have 5 icons pinned + menu button, and the menu is only wide enough to facilitate 6 icons. Any additional application opened would move the menu button to the left of the panel, which means the menu would no longer be above it. So the menu gets "kicked out" and now centers above the button, completly throwing off the muscle memory, since it opens in completly different place than usual. **A** solution to that is to have the menu be much wider than anticipated number of icons, but in my case that would mean the menu would have to take almost half of the screen width (and I have an ultra-wide monitor, on 16:9 laptop it's almost 3/4 of the screen width). Not very good solution, but it is A solution (of course if it works, which in this case doesn't, at least on both my systems). So if I understand correctly - in current implementation there's no way to FORCE Kickoff to ALWAYS open centered on screen, no matter if it would be above button or not? I got into discussion on Fosstodon with Niccolò Venerandi, who claimed there is an easy-ish way to force that in QML, but sadly the conversation didn't go anywhere from that. Hello there nate@kde.org. Any updates on this? If there was, you'd see it in a comment here. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libplasma/-/merge_requests/1285 |