Created attachment 169388 [details] before SUMMARY When user is changing Visibility setting in the Panel Configuration, the width of the panel changes based on the option selected. My suggestion is to make the width static (wide enough for the widest option which is "Windows Go Below") and keep it for all options so it doesn't jump around. This behavior looks much nicer in my opinion. I'm not sure how this would behave on smaller screens, hopefully would be good. Thank you. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right click on panel and select "Show Panel Configuration 2. Change values in the Visibility dropdown menu OBSERVED RESULT Panel width is changing based on the option selected EXPECTED RESULT Panel width is static SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 Kernel Version: 6.8.9-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
Created attachment 169389 [details] after
Yeah, this isn't amazing.
Proooobably less of an issue in Plasma 6.2 now that we've changed one of the buttons on the header to have longer text, but in principle this is still an issue, and will return if and when we ever shorten those labels or collapse them into one button that opens a dropdown menu.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2566
Git commit e24488e083837110984edf9229fc43921640a183 by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 21/01/2025 at 14:59. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'Plasma/6.3'. Make panel settings comboboxes take as much space as their longest element (cherry picked from commit 518187287d7edfaa11a968351847eaeb77ed36c3) Co-authored-by: Niccolò Venerandi <niccolo@venerandi.com> M +31 -0 desktoppackage/contents/configuration/PanelConfiguration.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/e24488e083837110984edf9229fc43921640a183
Git commit 518187287d7edfaa11a968351847eaeb77ed36c3 by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 21/01/2025 at 13:58. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Make panel settings comboboxes take as much space as their longest element M +31 -0 desktoppackage/contents/configuration/PanelConfiguration.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/518187287d7edfaa11a968351847eaeb77ed36c3