Created attachment 125566 [details] In the attached screenhot the SyncMaster screen is not activated and thus not visible while it should. SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Plug-in a second screen 2. Open the Display configuration section of systemsettings5 3. Uncheck the "Enabled" check box for this screen OBSERVED RESULT The disabled screen is not visible in the area where screens position is visible EXPECTED RESULT The disabled screen should be visible but grayed as previously. The current behavior is not easy at all. If one don't now that the "Settings for" label is a drop down, it can be missed. And anyway, having to drop it down and search for the right external monitor in the list is not easy. Just clicking on its grayed representation would be easier. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: up-to-date Neon (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66.0 Qt Version: 5.13.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In the attached screenhot the SyncMaster screen is not activated and thus not visible while it should.
You can access disabled screens using the screen chooser combobox ("Paramètres pour:"). Our reasoning for doing it this was that doesn't make sense to show disabled screens in the visualization since they're not actually being used and thus they have no position. Therefore there would be no sensible place to put them.
Created attachment 125640 [details] Suggested presentation of unactivated screens
I know that you can access disabled screens using the screen chooser combobox, even if it was hard to discover. I think that your reasoning here is a logician one, not a user perspective. When its screen is plugged in, the user (me) wants to see it available in the preview area. The grayed out solution I suggested if my report would work I think, but a more explicit possibility would be to add a zone dedicated to not-activated screens as in the mockup I have attached.
Hey, I really like that idea! Showing the disabled screens in a separate area seems like quite an elegant solution to the issue, and would allow us to de-clutter the main UI by removing the combobox and the dots.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 413799 ***