SUMMARY Nothing happens when you tap and hold on a panel STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Be on a device with a touchscreen (such as a 2in1 laptop) 2. Tap and hold on the panel OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT When you touch (and hold) an empty area on the panel, you should either get into panel edit mode or show the right click context menu. Touching and holding on an applet or system tray icon should show its right-click context menu (this seems to work some of the time but it is very inconsistent) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Both Wayland and X11
Still an issue on neon unstable. Possibly duplicate of bug 445901.
Looks like we'll also need to forward taps from empty areas of wide applets (like the Task Manager), not only clicks.
This bug actually seems to make panel editing entirely unavailable on touch devices. Given how many icons KDE spawns by default this is a bit of a usability problem especially on tablets with a smaller screen, since the panel can be crowded to the point where it's hard to still see what you want or pin any apps at all (and you can't remove any of the tray icons due to the panel edit mode being unreachable). Or is there any workaround available? I would be curious to hear about one, and sorry if I just missed it.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2443
Git commit f10c5d51f6e2699cf3c85535e9528587cad910e3 by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 19/08/2024 at 15:29. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Enter panel edit mode on touchscreen panel longpress M +2 -1 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml M +7 -1 containments/panel/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/f10c5d51f6e2699cf3c85535e9528587cad910e3