Bug 515182 - Auto-Hide Panel's beam effect can be avoided with left click, and the cursor can be placed at a restricted area
Summary: Auto-Hide Panel's beam effect can be avoided with left click, and the cursor ...
Status: CLOSED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Panel (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.5
Platform: CachyOS Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-01-28 03:27 UTC by Fernando Marcelino Muniz
Modified: 2026-01-30 17:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue in Plasma 6.5.5 (536.42 KB, video/x-matroska)
2026-01-28 03:27 UTC, Fernando Marcelino Muniz 		Details
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Description Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2026-01-28 03:27:40 UTC 
Created attachment 188973 [details]
Issue in Plasma 6.5.5

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Hold Left Click and go to the auto-hide Panel.
2. Let go of the left click.

OBSERVED RESULT
The cursor is in a area it should never be at by design. See Bug 508549

EXPECTED RESULT
Either:
1- Make the beam effect work there.
2- Don't allow the cursor to ever move there if Left Click is being held, and also make the beam effect work if the cursor is close while Left Click is being held.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.7-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
Memory: 9 GB of RAM (8.1 GB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82MG
System Version: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU6
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2026-01-30 17:34:44 UTC 
But there is no actual problem here. Nothing's broken, nothing's wrong, nothing isn't working, nothing looks weird or bad.

Please only report issues that actually cause a problem.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2026-01-30 17:35:48 UTC 
See also https://community.kde.org/Troubleshooting#Is_your_expectation_reasonable?.

Lots of things that don't work exactly the way you might expect them to work aren't actually bugs. Bugs are things that cause *problems*.