Created attachment 115473 [details] Non drop area on screen Moving items to different locations on the desktop is hard SUMMARY Items cannot be dropped on intermediate areas on desktop. When an item is dragged and dropped at a different location on the desktop, if the green plus icon isn't shown on the screen, the item can neither be dropped at the new location nor nearby; it just gets placed back at it's original location. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add a file/folder to the desktop (if Home or Trash are available they can be used) 2. Move an item to multiple locations on the desktop 3. Observe the various areas on the desktop the item can't be dropped and how often it flickers between the 'drop icon' and 'no-drop icon' 4. Drop the item somewhere where the drop icon is red. OBSERVED RESULT When dragging an item to a different location on the desktop, the cursor has to be positioned at a very specific location on the desktop before the item can be dropped. Otherwise, when the item is dropped, it gets placed back at it's original location. EXPECTED RESULT When an item is dropped anywhere on the desktop, it gets placed in the nearest slot. SOFTWARE VERSIONS (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0 Qt Version: 5.11.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It appears that desktop uses a grid, where items can only be placed on certain slots in that grid. If the item can't be dropped on areas between the slots, then possibly auto-placing the item in the closes location would work better.
Interesting, I can't reproduce this problem in Neon dev unstable (everything from git master). When I drag multiple items, I always just get the drag cursor, never a plus or minus cursor. If I drop the items outside of a grid square, they snap to the nearest grid locations. Are you holding down a modifier key or something?
No I'm not holding down any modifier keys. A correction, there is only one icon that shows and that's the red cancel icon shown in the image. When the item is in a drop area it shows no icon. Did you try dragging a single item as well. Dragging a single or multiple (2 in my case) results in the same issue. If it works for you maybe it is fixed upstream. Anyone else can verify?
Yes, dragging any number of items works for me. Does this reproduce for you with a new user account on the same system? Or with a fresh install of the same OS in a virtual machine?
I think that's a Qt bug in combination with some graphics card leading to erratically switching between acceptable and rejected drag. I have that on my laptop as well and I'm certain there's already a bug report about it (not specifically for Folder View).
Duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395491 ?(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #4) > I'm certain there's already a bug report about it (not > specifically for Folder View). You mean this? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395491
Created attachment 115507 [details] Screencast Screencast recorded on Arch Linux, plasma 5.13.5, Qt 5.11.2, intel hd graphics, modesetting driver.
Qt issue in 5.11.1; see duped bug and https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-69246 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 396011 ***