https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492623
Bug ID: 492623
Summary: Can't delete a off-screen widget
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 6.0.5
Platform: Manjaro
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: arthur.cacc...@proton.me
CC: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Sorry if this issue is already reported but I searched the most relevant
keywords I could think and was quite surprised I couldn't find it. The problem
is: there is no user-friendly way for deleting a widget that is not being
rendered on screen (but it would be nicer if it was recoverable).
In my opinion this is a major problem on user trust, I made the simple mistake
of trying to move a widget from a panel on one screen to another, a simple and
unassuming operation, and when my widget just vanished in thin air and I went
to create it again (sighs I need to reconfigure it all over) I noticed the
widget explorer would still list it as existing...
And I was not expecting what went ahead of me, first I thought I would just
right-click and delete it somehow but no. Okay, tried google... okay what is
plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc... what is Containments??? Applet 199?
27?
You will find, as I did, a lot of user with the same problem and the same
answer:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/kde-widget-how-to-remove/78193
https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-delete-hidden-desktop-widgets/13898
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/620699/remove-widgets-which-are-off-screen
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=267864
"well, just edit your plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc"
As it was not some esoteric inconceivable mumble of machine uttered poetry.
This is no place for humans.
Well, not considering me much of a human I ventured forth... just to mess my
entire desktop, do your backups, lesson learned.
But I really think such a simple task should not come with such dire
adventures. This is an really normal and common user desire and with
consequences that can make people really reconsider what they are doing with
their lives. Well this is my story, and I dare say many silent others too, hope
it reach a caring heart.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Disappear with a widget
2. Try to remove it
3. Get lost on the shadow realm
OBSERVED RESULT
This is not a task for mere mortals.
EXPECTED RESULT
Right click on widget at the widget explorer > list widgets > place it on
screen again (or delete it if getting it pack from shadow realm is unfeasible)
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.6.46-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
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