Created attachment 170793 [details] Hard to locate and click on widget controls In the new edit mode, that global down scaling reduces the size of the widgets controls (remove, configure, rotate), which makes locating and clicking on them really hard. See attached image for more info. Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0 Qt Version: 6.7.1 Kernel Version: 6.9.5-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
There's already some discussion regarding the size of the desktop at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487546, feel free to follow that bug as well. You can close the "Panel Configuration" dialog to increase the size of the desktop view, and if you need an even larger view, the "Add Widget" dialog as well.
(In reply to cwo from comment #1) > You can close the "Panel Configuration" dialog to increase the size of the > desktop view, and if you need an even larger view, the "Add Widget" dialog > as well. If we need to close panel and widget sidebar, then the whole idea of this new edit mode has no meaning and solves nothing at all. I don't know how it got accepted as a feature.
You use the Panel Configuration dialog if you want to edit the panel. It's not necessary if you want to edit the widgets on the desktop, and if you enter edit mode through the desktop context menu, it's not shown until the user explicitly opens it. This is why they are separate dialogs. I'm not sure what kind of solution you expect. If the additional dialogs are open, either the view on the desktop has to be made smaller (as it is now), or the dialogs would have to overlap the desktop, and then you couldn't interact with widgets that are in the overlapping areas.
(In reply to cwo from comment #3) > You use the Panel Configuration dialog if you want to edit the panel. It's > not necessary if you want to edit the widgets on the desktop, and if you > enter edit mode through the desktop context menu, it's not shown until the > user explicitly opens it. This is why they are separate dialogs. > > I'm not sure what kind of solution you expect. If the additional dialogs are > open, either the view on the desktop has to be made smaller (as it is now), > or the dialogs would have to overlap the desktop, and then you couldn't > interact with widgets that are in the overlapping areas. The only advanage I found is moving the added widgets in that small scaled view.
The bug here is that the widget explorer and panel edit toolbar are both open at the same time. Without that being the case, the desktop isn't scaled down as much. Marking as a duplicate of Bug 487546 since that's the issue causing the problem reported here. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 487546 ***