SUMMARY Adding spacers and moving items around on taskbar is very buggy and items freeze and overlap and hang. Once I add spacers then I try and move things around ti center my icons, the spacers hang or freeze or overlap and make the underlying items inaccessible. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Right click taskbar, enter "show panel configuration" 2. Add a spacer (or two) 3. Drag them around to make spacing of existing items different. OBSERVED RESULT Spacers move around but get hung often. Freezing so that they can't be moved and not allowing access to underlying items on taskbar. EXPECTED RESULT Should be able to move spacers freely to get positiong where you want it without items becoming frozen or inaccessible. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: CachyOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Oh my goodness, this is bad. The dragged widget gets stuck in place overlapping the Task Manager until I restart plasmashell.
*** Bug 500167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's a Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-127863
That's classified as P2 and has no comments since being opened 6 months ago. I don't suspect it will be getting fixed soon. Is there any workaround we can apply? The issue affecting the Task Manager is pretty severe; we have to do something about it.
*** Bug 500871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, I'm not familiar with KDE or Qt source code so please disregard if this is unhelpful, But I wonder if it is possible to outright disable interaction with the task manager widget icons or their drag handler when entering panel edit mode and then restoring ability to interact with the widget on exit. Would this be feasible as a work around?
JFYI, a Qt fix is in progress with https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/628862.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7) > JFYI, a Qt fix is in progress with > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdeclarative/+/628862. Great to hear. Thanks!