Bug 506447 - preview popup’s child popup doesn’t spawn at the correct place if parent was moved
Summary: preview popup’s child popup doesn’t spawn at the correct place if parent was ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-07-01 16:19 UTC by Quentin Guyot
Modified: 2025-10-09 21:45 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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A visual illustration of the issue. (151.59 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-07-01 16:19 UTC, Quentin Guyot
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Description Quentin Guyot 2025-07-01 16:19:05 UTC
Created attachment 182841 [details]
A visual illustration of the issue.

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open a preview popup
2. move it with e.g meta+click
3. open a child preview popup

OBSERVED RESULT
The child popup spawns near the original location of the parent

EXPECTED RESULT
The child popup spawns near the new location of the parent

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.4-arch2-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-07-03 14:20:29 UTC
Can confirm. I also did not know those popups could be moved.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-08-20 16:26:08 UTC
Yeah, I'm not sure these popups were expected to be Meta+draggable. That might be the thing to fix here.
Comment 3 Quentin Guyot 2025-08-20 20:26:07 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> Yeah, I'm not sure these popups were expected to be Meta+draggable. That
> might be the thing to fix here.

Thing is, the meta+draggability of these pop-ups is a solution to a problem I have with them.

I originally (well, not me, someone on Discuss[1]) discovered this feature to solve the main problem I have with them:
3x2 items being displayed is much too small to be useful to me.

I have a folder(my browser’s download folder)  where every new file I encounter goes before I do anything with them, and in that folder I have a bunch of subfolders for short-term tasks (longer tasks have their own activity), and I tend to move around a bunch of files with Plasma while those short-term tasks are still ongoing, something that I find more comfortable doing directly within Plasma, rather than launching Dolphin.

If the draggability were to be removed, I’d like the option to have more than a pitiful 3x2 grid of items to be displayed.

[1] Here’s the thread, for the record.
Comment 4 Quentin Guyot 2025-08-20 20:26:40 UTC
Oops, forgot the link https://discuss.kde.org/t/can-folder-view-pop-ups-display-more-than-6-items/36394/1
Comment 5 tomashnyk 2025-10-09 21:45:28 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> Yeah, I'm not sure these popups were expected to be Meta+draggable. That
> might be the thing to fix here.

If so, this is a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508124 (or vice versa)

However, I think it is maybe more of a feature than a bug. I have super+right click set up to resize them adn resizing them is a great feature. Only downside is a sublevel is spawned of again a smaller size and also in a position where I cannot reach it when I maximized the preview.

Also, if they are not windows, how do I close them with a keyboard? Escape does not work, ALT+F4 is quite handy.