Created attachment 110416 [details] screen cast showing the issue I use the mouse to switch between applications and it seems that I keep the mouse pressed while switching to the new application. This action results in a drag & drop operation of the current (or the previous) application's desktop file to the switched to application. I could see how this could work if I drag an application to the desktop and have a link to it. But normally I don't want to open a desktop file with Kate, KMail, or to download it with Chromium. In the attached screen cast I switch fast between applications in order to reproduce this issue. In normal usage this happens a few times in a working day. Very annoying. I feel like KDE Plasma slows me down :) This shouldn't happen. I would like the task switcher to behave like the "normal " Windows 7, Windows 10 task switcher. Just switch the task, nothing more. Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7vnxhc/plasma_512_is_out_and_it_is_faster_stabler_and/dttyqwi/
*** Bug 361984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please add a task manager setting to disable the drag and drop operation. This is the most annoying feature of Plasma. Thank you very much.
I use a laptop with touch screen, sometimes I inadvertently drag an entry from task manager to my browser and a .desktop file is "downloaded". Would be nice if an way to prevent this situation is available.
I've done this a few times. It's annoying.
I've sent people a .desktop File in both Skype and Telegram because of this, since both of those don't require confirmation to send it. Would be amazing to have this behavior changed.
I found one workaround which works for me, namely completely disabling drag & drop of tasks. Run $ SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml and at onPositionChanged function insert a "return" in the first line. Voila! Problem solved.
Fixed in https://phabricator.kde.org/D13274!
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7) > Fixed in https://phabricator.kde.org/D13274! just updated to 5.14 (which is awesome by the way) and this still happens to me. proof: https://streamable.com/fdlmz
Notice the little red minus icon when it's dragged? If you drop it onto the app, it won't go. This isn't how I would have implemented the fix, but it was the best we could do for now since it was controversial. If it isn't enough, we can re-visit it for 5.15.
This is something that bothers me, still I understand that this ticket was fixed, in a way: it tells about "drag and drop", and "drag" still happens, and "drop" (sometimes) not, as the fix has changed it. Should I make a new ticket to suggest alternatives? Namely: a) Wait some ms after user starts holding a mouse button (was mentioned in https://phabricator.kde.org/D8564#162784). b) Add a checkbox to Task Manager settings (could default to current behaviour).
(In reply to Alexander Shchadilov from comment #10) > This is something that bothers me, still I understand that this ticket was > fixed, in a way: it tells about "drag and drop", and "drag" still happens, > and "drop" (sometimes) not, as the fix has changed it. Should I make a new > ticket to suggest alternatives? Namely: > a) Wait some ms after user starts holding a mouse button (was mentioned in > https://phabricator.kde.org/D8564#162784). Yes please do. I find myself feeling similarly. I think this would be the preferred approach vs another option.