Bug 449565 - No obvious way of accessing System Tray settings after enabling "Always show all entries"
Summary: No obvious way of accessing System Tray settings after enabling "Always show ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: System Tray widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-02-03 17:20 UTC by guimarcalsilva
Modified: 2025-04-21 13:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description guimarcalsilva 2022-02-03 17:20:07 UTC
SUMMARY

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click on the arrow to the right of all applets to open "Status and Notifications"
2. Click on "Configure System Tray..."
3. Click on "Entries"
4. Enable "Always show all entries".

OBSERVED RESULT

The arrow will disappear, and the way the user previously used to access the tray settings is gone. The only way of accessing the settings again is by entering edit mode, hovering over the tray, and clicking on "Configure...", but the user needs to have used edit mode before to know how to get to settings again.

EXPECTED RESULT

There should be a more visible way of showing the settings for the user.

There are some alternatives for fixing the issue:

Since it doesn't make sense to show the arrow when all entries are visible, the arrow could become a configure icon. Another option would be to have "Configure System Tray..." in the context menu of each entry or when right-clicking in an empty area if "Always show all entries" is enabled.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-28-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 6 × Intel® Core™ i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-02-03 18:04:08 UTC
Yeah, can confirm.