STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. right-click on Plasma panel and choose 'Enter edit mode' 2. click on 'More options...' button 3. click on 'Floating panel' - this option takes effect 4. click on 'Maximize panel' OBSERVED RESULT 'Maximize panel' option does not work. Floating mode persists. EXPECTED RESULT 'Maximize panel' option works SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Graphics Platform: Wayland
Maximizing the panel doesn't make it un-float; it just makes it as large as possible while preserving the floatyness. Can you attach a screenshot of how your panel looks when both floating and maximized?
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This is the correct behavior. A maximized panel is a panel whose window touches both edges of the screen. When the panel is floating, there's some additional margin around the screen, but the panel still extend from border to border. This button isn't really meant to un-float the panel. It is meant, as an example, if you make the panel smaller horizontally (even when floating) and then you want to maximize horizontally again. I'll consider how the wording could become more clear, though.