Bug 510183

Summary: Can't move or properly select desktop icons when they're overlapping with a widget on a desktop.
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Terracotta <blueterracotta>
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: hein, kde, nate, notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.4.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Terracotta 2025-10-02 20:58:39 UTC
Created attachment 185470 [details]
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Place a widget somewhere on a desktop
2. Create a text file or an empty file
3. Move/drag the created file over the widget and put it there.

OBSERVED RESULT
Can't move file or properly interact with it.

EXPECTED RESULT
Should be able to interact with the file normally and drag & drop like normal.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Fedora KDE Workstation 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
There should be a way to set whether a widget is in the background or not.
Comment 1 Marco Martin 2025-10-03 08:22:38 UTC
I think the proper solution would be having icons and widgets in the same layout, not allowed to overlap, though is not a simple issue
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-10-03 15:57:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 374094 ***