SUMMARY A few things in the system tray are actually 'invisible levels' meaning you don't see them until you hover over them. The users I help have not played videogames such as with invisible areas/blocks and do not understand why they can't find things. If they want to reconnect printer, network / radio(bt), or safely remove a storage device, they don't want to do it like in a videogame invisible level. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Look everywhere in system tray until you find invisible levels such as actions to do to your printer, network/radio/bt connection or storage device. 2. Hope you've played videogames with invisible levels. 3. Probably don't find the invisible area easily (even as a programmer.) OBSERVED RESULT Basic configuration is invisible until you hover over. EXPECTED RESULT Basic configuration should be visible, at least as an option. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 20.04/5.20.2 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/134
Git commit e845f3dbcc2b0495d557d0be6eced7e0722770a8 by Nate Graham. Committed on 04/11/2020 at 20:32. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Always show ExpandableListitem buttons, not just on hover Hover buttons suffer from discoverability problems and can't be used on touch, and this component is explicitly trying to be touch-friendly. So let's make the buttons always be visible, not just on hover. To avoid the appearance becoming too heavy, the Buttons are turned into ToolButtons. FIXED-IN: 5.76 M +3 -8 src/declarativeimports/plasmaextracomponents/qml/ExpandableListItem.qml https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/commit/e845f3dbcc2b0495d557d0be6eced7e0722770a8
I opened a Phab task about this so we can have the discussion in one place rather than scattered around all over the place. Everyone is invited to participate, of course! However as this is a place for developer discussions, please think before you post and try to honestly and openly consider other people's points of view. :) https://phabricator.kde.org/T14172