SUMMARY There are two way to open the Add widget sidebar in edit mode. One is using the button in the topbar and the second (which is in my opinion reduntant) in the new panel settings. The problem is that while the first button doesn't close the new panel settings (making the desktop very small) the second temporary hide the new panel setting. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open panel edit mode 2. Try both button with "add widget" OBSERVED RESULT The button in the global toolbar doesn't close the new panel settings (making the desktop very small) the other temporary hide the new panel setting. EXPECTED RESULT Both should hide (or close going back to global edit mode) the new panel settings. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 Qt Version: 6.7.1 Kernel Version: 6.9.1-arch1-2 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION none
Created attachment 169832 [details] extreme example of result
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481380 ***
Wrongly marked as duplicate of another bug . The other bug is related to panel hiding in other screen, this is related to edit mode.
Sorry, that must've been a misclick of mine!
The buttons do different things. The one on the top bar adds it to the desktop, while the one on the panel configuration dialog adds it to the dialog's panel. I can't reproduce the issue: when the panel config dialog is open, if I click "Add Widgets" from the top bar, the panel config dialog disappears. Can you attach a screen recording that shows the issue?
Created attachment 170406 [details] video of trying to get problem You are right that they do different thing by clicking on them but i think it is not communicated well enough. Expecially because from both of them i can drag the widget to any place i want to add it. And also because the two view are not differentiated neither by the title. About the not closing of the panel setting the new step are: 1. open edit mode (not of panel) 2. click on panel to open panel edit mode 3. click on the topbar "add widget" button But even with this step it seem to happen only sometimes (less than before maybe) as it can be seen in the video.
Thanks. I'm trying the exact same thing and I can't get it to happen even once. Let's assume this got fixed in a later version of the code that's either in git master or the final release of Plasma 6.1.
Updated step: 1. open global Edit Mode 2. click on panel to open Panel Edit Mode 3. Click on "add widget" in the top global toolbar This seem to connected (I think) to the fact the when opening panel edit mode in this way (throught global edit mode), then panel edit mode is also not disposable by pressing ESC.
Created attachment 170506 [details] Happened to me too All right, I just got it to happen with those steps.
It seems that this bug report at present mixes several issues: 1. The title is about having two ways to open the Widget Explorer - for panels, and for the desktop. This is intentional as they do different things. 2. The two ways work differently in many ways. See also #488571 and its comments for more inconsistencies 3. Sometimes, in particular if both the Widget Explorer and the Panel settings are open at the same time, the picture of the desktop becomes very small 4. Opening Widget Explorer should close the Panel Configuration (and the other way around, I presume?) I'd like to argue against 4 first. It seems to me that a user who opens both the Widget Explorer and the Panel Settings is looking to setup multiple widgets on their panel, and will likely look to arrange them as well. Constantly leaving one mode or the other would mean lots of manual re-entering modes. Plus, there does not seem to be a conceptual reason why both couldn't be active at the same time, and if the user is done adding or rearranging, but still want the other mode active, they can always manually close things. This means that the image of the desktop will sometimes be smaller (3). But I think it really looks weird in the screenshots here not because both modes are active, but because there's a lot of unused space. And this doesn't seem to happen in the default panel setup (bottom full-width panel); in that case, the full screen width gets used. So I would suggest that using all the available space would allow for a larger image of the desktop, and solve this. (It would still be rather tiny on a very small screen resolution , but I think it's unavoidable that this is going to happen sometimes. dmatteo, would that solve your issue? I would also suggest editing the description to make it more clear what this bug is about.
So about the 4th point: my problem is not that it should close because now it doesn't; it is that that singular button sometimes it does close the panel configuration (expecially if i open directly the panel edit mode from the desktop) and sometimes it doesn't (it always does not close if I click on edit mode and then on panel edit mode, but only sometimes if i goes from desktop to panel edit mode). So it is about inconsistency about the use of a single button in equivalent situations. About the other problem for which I'll open a bug report in the next days: 1. the panel configuration should be pushed to the side to leave as much space as possible to the desktop preview (like you mentioned). 2. the two "add widget" do different action but show same UI with no way to distinguish the two UI once opened. I think that it should at the very least add a different title to make the user expect slightly different result, else it may think that these two button are linked to same UI with same behaviour.
I asked because your original report said "Both should close" as the expected result, so I assumed you had a particular preference toward that outcome, whereas my intuition would be that both should stay open. The inconsistency seems like a valid issue, although you could make the argument that closing should not always do the same thing; see bug #487760 for the argument that closing Panel Configuration mode should leave Edit Mode active if it was active before opening Panel Configuration mode. (This is not the current behavior, which seems a bit arbitrary). For more on inconsistent interactions between edit mode/panel configuration and the widget explorer/Add widget modes, see also bug #488571
*** Bug 488944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I cannot reproduce this at all anymore with current git master. I think there's a good chance it was fixed with some of the edit mode patches that went into Plasma 6.1.1. Is anyone using Plasma 6.1.1 still able to reproduce the issue?