Created attachment 146064 [details] Screenshot: Top before restart, bottom after restart SUMMARY Widgets don't seem to persist their position at the right of the bottom panel between restarts of the plasma shell, breaking the user's desktop configuration after reboot if they rely on this positioning. This can be seen when using a task manager that doesn't fill the width of the panel and automatically push widgets to its right there, such as Latte dock. Entering edit mode lets you drag widgets to the side so this feature clearly exists, just that it's not remembered. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Remove the Task Manager or Icon Only Task Manager, or use Latte Dock which adjusts its width dynamically. 2. Drag the digital clock, system tray, other widgets to the right side of the panel. 3. Once you're done editing, restart plasma with the command "pkill plasmashell;kstart5 plasmashell" OBSERVED RESULT The system tray and digital clock move back to the left and now reside right of the dock. EXPECTED RESULT They should retain their position and stay at the right of the screen where they've been placed. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.2-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series
I just realized you can use spacers on the panel to work around this issue, probably the right way of doing it anyway. This is still a bug since the editor lets you drag widgets to the right just doesn't persist them between restarts... if the feature didn't exist you wouldn't be able to do the dragging, since you can it should also remember your changes then.
Seems fixed since widgets evenly spreading on panel instead of sticking to side.
Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Plasma 5.27? Thanks a lot!
Haven't see it in a while: Unless someone else can confirm otherwise I consider it solved.
Cool, thanks so much for following up!