SUMMARY At most time it looks like this: wifi+airplane+search. The hotspot btn is block by search panel  If I want to make hotspot panel show. I need to close wifi first.  Now I need to open wifi to connect to the hotspot.  Can you smart guys make the search panel smaller to show the hotspot button? Or just because the wifi and the hotspot function can not exist at the same time? Thanks for reading. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click network manager in system tray OBSERVED RESULT There are three parts:wifi, airplane, search. The hotspot is blocked by search panel EXPECTED RESULT The four parts appear at the same time. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: : 5.24.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/issues/1
So the search field isn't actually covering up the Hotspot button. When it's not shown, it's because `handler.hotspotSupported` is being set to false. And yes, this happens because when you're using WiFi to receive a connection, you can't also be using WiFi to generate another one. WiFi can only be used for one thing at a time. So to make the hotspot button work, you need to receive your internet connection from Ethernet, mobile data, or some other non-WiFi source.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) Thanks for your kindly reply. That helps a lot.