kde 4.1 panel windows + drag/move

William Witt william at witt-family.net
Tue Aug 19 01:21:12 UTC 2008


On Monday 18 August 2008 20:32:02 NoOp wrote:
> On 08/18/2008 05:24 PM, William Witt wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2008 19:59:09 NoOp wrote:
> >> I'm a gnome guy; however I've installed kde 4.1 on 2 systems to: 1) try
> >> to assist Leonard with his SeaMonkey issue, and 2) just to see what it
> >> is about. There are a lot of things that are different of course, but
> >> one thing that I find lacking is the ability to move a panel window pane
> >> to another postion on the panel bar. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong,
> >> but in Gnome if I have multiple windows open the panel bar may look
> >> something like:
> >>
> >> desktopstuff|emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2|terminalwindow
> >>
> >> In Gnome I can take 'terminalwindow' by using the mouse and drag it in
> >> front of 'emailwindow' so the panel then shows:
> >>
> >> desktopstuff|terminalwindow|emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2
> >>
> >> Is this not possible in kde/kde 4.1 & if so, what do I need to do to get
> >> it to work?
> >
> > To move plasmoids (widgets) around the panel, you must first click on the
> > plasma symbol (looks kind of like half of a yin/yang symbol) on the
> > panel.  If it is not there, right click on the desktop and click unlock
> > widgets.  You should then be able to move them around at will.  To move
> > the panel around, click and drag on the control panel that comes up after
> > clicking on the plasma symbol.
> >
> > Moving plasmoids on the panel is one of the new features of 4.1.
> >
> > Will
>
> Been there, done that. It only moves the entire
> 'emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2|terminalwindow' group, and I
> can't get it to move only one of them as described above.

I apologize, I misread the question.  That would be new functionality for the 
task manager plasmoid.  Perhaps requesting it at https://bugs.kde.org/ may get 
some action.

Will
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