Bug 502733

Summary:	It would be nice if the screen edges had a setting to auto-close too after a certain time
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	liam
Component:	Activity Switcher sidebar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ivan.cukic, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description liam 2025-04-13 05:15:02 UTC

SUMMARY

When the Activity Manager is opened via screen edge, it stays open until the user interacts with it. This can lead to a slightly clunky user experience, especially when it's triggered unintentionally.

It would be great to have an optional setting to automatically hide the Activity Manager after a brief delay (e.g. 5–10 seconds) if the user doesn’t interact with it.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set up Activity Switcher to be triggered from the screen edge
2. Trigger it. Note it doesnt close until the user clicks somewhere
3. It would be nice if it closed after a certain length of time, set by the user in Screen Edges - System Settings


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 60.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-06-04 18:39:15 UTC

But why would you open it if your intention isn't to interact with it?

In general auto-closing user interface elements represent bad UX. They take people by surprise and lead to things closing too early for those who are blind, old, cognitively impaired, have huge screens, or experience any other conditions that cause them to not notice things changing immediately.

For those reasons, I don't think we can consider this, sorry.