SUMMARY *** I create a global theme with the lookandfeelexplorer component of the Plasma SDK and in this global theme is a "floating" panel. Then, when I apply the newly made theme, the panel doesn't float. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create global theme containing a "floating" panel using the lookandfeelexplorer 2. Save the global theme 3. Apply the theme OBSERVED RESULT Floating panel doesn't float any more EXPECTED RESULT Global theme takes over Plasma layout accurately SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.27 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-60-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Celeron® J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz Memory: 7.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 600 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Btw, the "lookandfeelexplorer" is absent in the "select Product box" (top left of this page)
Now I try a few times more and the panel sometimes does float. Only sometimes not. Most of the time the global themes are not applied accurately.
To confirm the steps you did: 1) you configured your plasma to have a floating panel 2) in lookandfeelexplorer you created a new theme and then selected "layout from current plasma setup" 3) saved it 4) when applying it from the KCM, the panel is not made floating?
That is exactly what I did. The results turn out to be quite unpredictable to say at the least...
I can confirm that both dumping and restoring the layout, the floating state doesn't get saved or restored This is actually a bug of plasma scripting itself, which at the moment doesn't support floating panels at all
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 457498 ***