https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376031
Bug ID: 376031
Summary: Panel completely disappears and is unretrievable
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.8.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: martin.strec...@irit.fr
Target Milestone: 1.0
I have filed this report before. Probably, you are trying to tell me that the
problem has been reported 1000 times and that it has been fixed. Maybe the
first part of the sentence is true, but not the second. The problem persists.
At the risk of being redundant:
* After connecting and then disconnecting external monitors, the panel
disappears, and there is no evident way of getting it back to my primary
display (see below). If I use a graphical user interface, I would like to have
an accessible menu entry that allows me to create a new panel. I do not want to
waste my time fumbling around with scripts in the entrails of the window
manager.
* Primary display: I would definitely ask you to provide a definition of what
you call a primary display. For me, a reasonable approximation would be to say
that if a laptop is disconnected from all external monitors, then the primary
display is the only display that is left, namely the built-in display of the
laptop. I am sorry to state such banalities, but the way things work in Plasma,
there does not seem to be a consensus.
* The fundamental problem is that you as Plasma developers severely
overestimate your capacity of offering "smart" solutions. The consequence is
that elementary functionality fails on a regular basis. Just give your users
the chance to reset the system to a state that does not make it entirely
unusable.
Martin Strecker
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