In some cases I love to have overlapping widgets on the desktop - just a little bit, especially when they are rotated. Personal style and decoration ;). This was no problem with KDE 4. But with Plasma 5 the widgets just don't overlap anymore - and to make it worse, they resize on their own when I try to do so. Just found the perfect size for a widget - and it resizes on its own... Is there a way to allow the widgets to overlap and to not snap to any grid? And to not resize on their own? I don't find any obvious "don't snap to grid" or "allow widgets to overlap" or "KDE4 behaviour" option in the desktop settings or systemsettings. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: Widgets must not resize on their own on the desktop. It should be possible for the user to arrange the widgets as he desires, even if the widgets overlap.
Both the snap to grid and non-overlapping widgets are a conscious design decision and not subject to change. I agree that the resizing of widgets while repositioning them is awkward/unexpected at times, though.
Can this be reopened ? It may be intentional design but I think it should be more flexible. I'm designing a widget that actually requires overlapping for it's function (see https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=175149 ). The default behaviour probably makes sense (ie, the "intentional design"), that's fine. The logic that happens when I put a widget on top of another is really nice. The widget sort of "drops" to the side and becomes smaller. But it needs a toggle somewhere to toggle snapping to grid on/off and overlapping widgets on/off.