Bug 500463 - KDE on Arch 6.3.1 Icons and text panel (app taskbar) suddenly started putting up long lasting popups on hover the obscures the currently focussed gadget (it is visually modal blocking in screenshot)
Summary: KDE on Arch 6.3.1 Icons and text panel (app taskbar) suddenly started putting...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.1
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-02-20 14:24 UTC by Tom Atkinson
Modified: 2025-05-21 14:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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popup for "alternative widgets" blocking use of color picker gadgets (148.60 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-02-20 14:24 UTC, Tom Atkinson 		Details
closeup of "popup" that is hard to delete or configure (42.33 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-02-20 14:26 UTC, Tom Atkinson 		Details
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Description Tom Atkinson 2025-02-20 14:24:30 UTC 
Created attachment 178635 [details]
popup for "alternative widgets" blocking use of color picker gadgets

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is a bug for me as i do not know how to disable the on-hover effect.
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Hovering mouse near taskbar items causes an always on top accidental modal popup to visually block my use of focussed foreground application - see screenshot.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. I was running "paru" by itself a bit recently i don't remember changing or asking for this popup to appear I usually disable the "show app thumbnail on hover" etc.

OBSERVED RESULT
Normally closing the popup is only possible by clicking [x] at top right but this is undesirtable as I wish to keep the window open. :)

EXPECTED RESULT
I have all on mouise hover popups (except tooltips) disabled for the taskbar.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
6.13.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)  X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Tom Atkinson 2025-02-20 14:26:49 UTC 
Created attachment 178636 [details]
closeup of "popup" that is hard to delete or configure
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-02-21 06:21:16 UTC 
I'm afraid this was an intentional change for the Task Manager.

If you want to go back to the way things were before, you can disable *all* panel widget tooltips in System Settings > General Behavior > uncheck "Show informational tooltips on hover".