Bug 410927 - Pager widget in the panel disappears when panel leaves 'Panel Settings' mode.
Summary: Pager widget in the panel disappears when panel leaves 'Panel Settings' mode.
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Pager widget (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2019-08-15 10:52 UTC by tim.baverstock
Modified: 2019-08-19 11:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description tim.baverstock 2019-08-15 10:52:29 UTC
SUMMARY

Pager widget in the panel disappears when panel leaves 'Panel Settings' mode.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enter Panel settings mode
2. Add a pager widget to the panel at the bottom of the screen
3. Click anywhere else to leave panel settings mode.
4. Re-enter panel settings mode.

OBSERVED RESULT
Pager widget vanishes until I re-enter panel settings mode.

EXPECTED RESULT
It would be there all the time?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System) <---- Not really - apt list | grep works better, so long as you know what you're grepping for.
selinux/bionic,bionic 1:0.11 all

KDE Plasma Version: 
kde-plasma-desktop/bionic 5:100ubuntu2 amd64

KDE Frameworks Version: 
kdebase-bin/bionic,bionic 4:16.04.3-0ubuntu1 all
maybe?

Qt Version: 
qtchooser -print-env
QT_SELECT="default"
QTTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin"
QTLIBDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"

qt4-default/bionic 4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1 amd64

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This happens even if I create a new default panel on my second screen, of presumably the default height.

Panels are quite happy to glue themselves to the desktop if I fumble the drag while dragging across my enormous screen, and stay visible regardless of the panel's state, but I can't move them at all once they're glued(?!)
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-08-15 10:53:18 UTC
That's on purpose. It only shows if there is more than one virtual desktop.
Comment 2 tim.baverstock 2019-08-19 11:11:23 UTC
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> That's on purpose. It only shows if there is more than one virtual desktop.

I have two big displays and having a small map of their windows is useful.

It was suprising and unexplained behaviour: Shouldn't this be an option?