Bug 449543 - Dragging items out of the view in such a way that would make the view scrollable should instead position them in visible space so it doesn't become scrollable
Summary: Dragging items out of the view in such a way that would make the view scrolla...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widget (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2022-02-03 08:03 UTC by Derek Christ
Modified: 2025-01-10 20:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Derek Christ 2022-02-03 08:03:21 UTC
SUMMARY
Since https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/836 it's multiple items that get dragged onto the desktop will get properly placed at the cursor position.
A result of this, however, is that dragging multiple items onto the desktop in the bottom right corner makes the view scrollable because some items get placed outside of the visible space.
This might almost never be the intend of the user.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Drop at least two files from Dolphin over to the desktop
2. Drop it in the bottom right corner
3. Scrollbar appears

OBSERVED RESULT
Scrollbar appears, item gets placed outside of the view

EXPECTED RESULT
Maybe the dropped items should shift backwards so that none gets dropped outside of the view.
Comment 1 tekKUh 2025-01-10 20:59:02 UTC
Hello there, im a dumb user running Plasma 6.3 on Arch Linux.

I personally loved this "bug" in Plasma 5 and I used it more as a feature to hide icons I don't think are pretty or too hard to explain, but since upgrading forwards to Plasma 6.3 using KDE's testing repository, I've noticed this bug has actually gotten worse! Here's the details of my experience:

On plasma 5, I found out this bug by simply taking an icon by its topper portion, and dragging it down to the direct DIRECT bottom of the desktop, It creates a new column, and I can now scroll this desktop using my middle button, the icons work perfectly fine and this is a fun way to hide things on my desktop

On plasma 6.3, I found that when repeating the same procedure from Plasma 5 onto Plasma 6.3, The desktop scrolls, the icons look fine, however ANY icon that is below where it should've been no longer responds to user input, like left clicks, right clicks, and dragging does highlight it, but doesn't enable me to interact with this icon at all anymore, rendering the file unusable unless I go into the dolphin explorer, move it from and back, and it appears where it "should" be at the top of my desktop.

I personally really loved this bug from Plasma 5, so as a wish-list from me, I would love to see this "bug" become more and more polished into a very unique feature. As I had this "bug" posted at https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2535476 [this link contains videos of the bug on plasma 5 and plasma 6.3], and it got very positive responses, being looked at as an amazing thing rather than a bug, thanks for your understatement and reading
~ Some random guy on the internet