Bug 441524 - Flip layout when applet lives on a right-aligned panel
Summary: Flip layout when applet lives on a right-aligned panel
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2021-08-25 10:34 UTC by Jaime Torres
Modified: 2025-10-20 09:55 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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the ability to swap pannels by configuration (12.41 KB, image/png)
2021-08-25 10:35 UTC, Jaime Torres
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Description Jaime Torres 2021-08-25 10:34:02 UTC
SUMMARY
Sometimes the host does strange things to a virtual machine, and the upper left corner becomes inaccessible by mouse. Therefore, I have moved the Cascade Menu to the upper right corner.
Sometimes clicking in the favourite icon becomes hard work as the mouse tends to pass over the menus first.
If it is possible to move the favourites bar at the right of the menu (configurable, of course), this problem vanish.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
plasmashell 5.22.4
Comment 1 Jaime Torres 2021-08-25 10:35:12 UTC
Created attachment 141031 [details]
the ability to swap pannels by configuration
Comment 2 cwo 2025-06-09 19:31:13 UTC
Kicker already flips its layout when used on a right-edge panel. (Somewhat badly, with the submenu buttons pointing in the wrong direction and runner columns not being flipped, but still). But that doesn't work on a top/bottom panel that's toward the right-hand side of the screen; I don't think we have infrastructure for that.

We might make it a toggle-able option, I guess. Shouldn't be hard to add (and best paired with fixing the above issues), if we want that.
Comment 3 cwo 2025-08-14 13:39:18 UTC
1712b9ac3260fadf0930972e6237bf38047b0724 implements improved layout flipping on opposite-edge panels.

It should be flexible enough to make a configuration option simple to implement, if we want this, but I'm not fully convinced we do.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-08-14 13:40:26 UTC
I also think configurability is overkill here.
Comment 5 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-10-20 09:55:41 UTC
This currently works as of 6.5