SUMMARY When using panel spacers next to the icons task manager (i.e. for centering or spacing), the area the task manager occupies on the panel shrinks to only fit the current set of icons which makes adding new ones by dragging and dropping harder, because dragging an app icon say from kickoff to an empty area on such panel would add it as its own widget on the panel and not to the task manager. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set up a panel such that a task manager is surrounded by flexible spacers. 2. Drag an app icon/.desktop link into a large empty area on the panel OBSERVED RESULT App link gets added as a widget which may later confuse users on why they cant reorder it with the other task manager icons. EXPECTED RESULT Allow spacer to bypass dragged app links to the nearest adjacent task manager on the panel. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1
Or alternatively, add an option to Icons-Only Task Manager to center its icons while preserving its current width filling behavior.
I confirm the difficulty in trying to drag an icon from the App Menu to the Task Manager on the side of a spacer. It would be useful to make this easier for folks.