https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357484
Bug ID: 357484
Summary: Clicking on Widget in Panel Causes Widget Icon to
Disappear
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: kde.coral...@xoxy.net
Sorry that I can't provide an exact version number, but the "Panel" has no
About | Help menu that can be used to extract a version number. I am using the
version of KDE that ships with Fedora 23. Not that a precise version is
necessary, as I am complaining about a feature, not reporting a bug.
When I add Widgets to the Desktop Panel, they disappear when they are clicked.
For some reason, someone thought it would be cute to have the widget that
provides a taskbar icon for an application to disappear whent he application is
loaded. While this provides a clever animation, such that the icon disappears
when the application is loaded, it's not really such a well-conceived idea.
What is the user to do when he wants to use the widget to open TWO instances of
an application, such as Dolphin?
The answer is that he's screwed. He can only use the Widget to open ONE
instance of Dolphin, because as soon as the widget is clicked, it disappears
from the Desktop's Panel. WTH? Now the user has to migrate through the Start
Menu to find the application launch button.
This is silly. Disappearance of the Widget from the taskbar completely negates
the benefit of putting it there in the first place. It would make more sense
to leave the widgets alone. Who thought it was a good idea to make widgets
disappear?
This "feature" needs to have a switch to turn it off. It's very annoying.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a widget to the desktop panel
2. Click on it, watch it disappear
3. Jump through hoops to try to open a second instance of the widget
Actual Results:
cursed quite a bit at the lame-brained idea to make panel widgets disappear,
filed this bug report.
Expected Results:
Widgets need to stay where the user puts them. Making widgets disappear from
the panel violates the user's desire to put them there. You have no business
automatically removing widgets that a user places on his panel. that's
tampering. That's bad.
Leave widgets where the user puts them on the desktop panel.
Stop tampering with the user's desktop configuration.
This is really, really, Windows-level stupidity.
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