SUMMARY I'm on the Arch linux plasma 6 beta and the panel is not popping up when I move my cursor to the edge of the screen. (the panel is in auto-hide mode) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In plasma 6 beta 2 (not sure if other betas had this problem 2. Have a panel set to autohide 3. Try to open it with just the cursor OBSERVED RESULT Panel doesn't pop up EXPECTED RESULT Panel should pop up SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.91.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.247.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 Kernel Version: 6.7.0-rc6-273-tkg-eevdf (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series
Ok I just realised that it's not a "bug" and it seems like it's just a change in panel behavior (?) The panel used to pop up instantly when my cursor touched the edge of the screen but now it seems like I have to 1. go to the edge of the screen. 2. move it along the edge of the screen for a moment. Was this an intended? (Just asking because I remember other similar cases of change in behavior which was a side effect of a different bug fix)
I see the same issue since the update to Beta 2, Beta 1 did not have this issue. Operating System: Fedora Linux 39 KDE Plasma Version: 5.91.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.247.0 KDE Gear 24.01.85-1 Qt Version: 6.6.0 Kernel Version: 6.6.8-200.fc39.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
I kinda like this behavior to be honest. It's at least useful when you have a button or something really close to the bottom where the auto-hiding panel also is, and with this change/bug/whatever you are less likely to accidentally open the panel when you didn't want to.
Marking as intentional since this was deliberately changed in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/e5753ea33669813f2ba0cf23f28b4cf06ac259f3