Bug 416174 - Widgets should be movable by pressing and holding Meta key
Summary: Widgets should be movable by pressing and holding Meta key
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Containment (show other bugs)
Version: 5.17.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Sebastian Kügler
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Keywords: junior-jobs, usability
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Reported: 2020-01-12 17:30 UTC by nuc
Modified: 2022-08-26 09:23 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description nuc 2020-01-12 17:30:11 UTC
So I have struggled a while to find out how to actually move plasma widgets on the desktop. It took a while for me to find out that I need to hold left click.

It would be really cool and intuitive to move the widgets using ALT key, too.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-01-13 05:13:46 UTC
This strikes me as a sensible idea, yeah.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-01-13 05:14:23 UTC
Maybe it could even visually indicate this to you by changing the cursor to an open grabby hand while the Alt key is held down.
Comment 3 nuc 2020-01-23 21:38:08 UTC
Yes, there definately needs to be something done IMO. I actually needed to ask in the forums how move or even remove a widget.
ALT key was some intuitive idea I came up with but it didn't work either and it drove me nuts^^
Comment 4 nuc 2020-02-15 18:26:56 UTC
Interestingly this feature has actually been mentioned in the Plasma 5.10 release notes:

> It is now possible to resize widgets in the desktop by dragging on their edges and moving them with Alt+left-click, just like regular windows

Apparently it has either not been implemented or it is broken.
Comment 5 Dan Robinson 2022-08-25 11:30:52 UTC
Is this still wanted/needed?

At the moment we have edit mode and it looks like the click/drag functionality in this report isn't still around, and the edit mode replaces the need for this.

Thoughts?
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2022-08-26 09:23:26 UTC
At this point it would be the Meta key not the alt key since we changed that a few releases ago, but yeah, I think at this point it isn't needed with all the other changes we've made in the stack since it was reported.