Bug 515057

Summary:	Dodge windows seems broken
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Tom Oostveen <18gatenmaker6>
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	akselmo, kdedev, niccolo.venerandi
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	regression
Version First Reported In:	6.5.90
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	NixOS
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349785
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc followed by ~/.config/plasmashellrc

Description Tom Oostveen 2026-01-25 14:05:54 UTC

Created attachment 188867 [details]
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc followed by ~/.config/plasmashellrc

SUMMARY
Setting any docked panel's visibility to "Dodge Windows" seems broken as of the Plasma 6.6 beta 6.5.90.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a panel with the following configuration:
- Position: down
- Alignment: center
- Width: fill width
- Visibility: dodge windows
- Opacity: adaptive
- Floating: disabled
- Panel height: 44
2. Open any application like dolphin or firefox
3. Maximize it or move it in from of the panel

OBSERVED RESULT
The panel does nothing and does not move out of the way as it used to.

EXPECTED RESULT
The panel moves down and out of the way like in plasmashell 6.5.5

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: NixOS 26.05
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.5 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Tested with the following PR to nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479797

Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2026-01-26 09:12:36 UTC

Can you make a video showcasing this? I am not able to reproduce any issues with the window dodging.

Operating System: KDE Linux 2026-01-26
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.6-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Comment 2 TraceyC 2026-01-28 17:41:22 UTC

Setting status, since we're waiting on information from the reporter