https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489413
Bug ID: 489413
Summary: The "Add Widget…" button on an empty panel has a
rather unhelpful tooltip menu in Panel Configuration
mode
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: christoph.w...@gmx.de
CC: niccolo.venera...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: 1.0
(Originally mentioned as an aside in #488792, filing as a new bug so it doesn't
get lost)
SUMMARY
Empty panels permanently display an "Add widget…" button that opens the Widget
Explorer, inviting users to make use of the empty panel they added. If the user
is in Panel Configuration mode and hovers the mouse over this button, a tooltip
menu opens as if the button were a regular widget. This tooltip, however, is
completely useless. It only contains a title field and an entry for "Show
Alternatives". The title field is empty. "Show Alternatives…", reasonably
enough, doesn't do anything when clicked - there's really no alternative to an
"Add widgets…" button. All together, this popup contains zero information and
nothing for the user to meaningfully interact with.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right-click the desktop, "Enter Edit Mode…", Add Panel > Empty Panel
2. Right-click the new panel, "Show panel configuration"
3. Hover the mouse over the "Add widgets…" button on the empty panel.
OBSERVED RESULT
A useless popup.
EXPECTED RESULT
No popup.
(Alternatively, a popup that contains only the title of the button, "Add
Widget…", instead of the empty title area. This has a rather niche use case: on
a vertical panel, the "Add widget…" text is missing. A user unsure about what
the button does, but who knows about the tooltips in Panel Configuration mode,
or happens to be in that mode, might use this to figure out what the button
does. My intuition is that this is too marginal to justify keeping the tooltip,
but I don't have strong opinions on this)
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
current neon dev
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.80
Qt Version: 6.7.0
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