https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498827
Nate Graham <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CONFIRMED |RESOLVED See Also| |https://bugs.kde.org/show_b | |ug.cgi?id=384782 Resolution|--- |INTENTIONAL --- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- Right now tray widgets are grouped by type, and within groups, are ordered alphabetically. I bet you can see where this is going, right? Positioning these two widgets next to each other by default would require one of the following three options: 1. Abandoning alphabetical ordering and having a hardcoded ordering, as in System Settings' sidebar 2. Giving both widgets names that happen to position them next to one another alphabetically 3. Supporting non-square widgets so both icons can be adjacent in a single widget 3 is basically a rewrite of the whole widget, and effectively eliminates the grid option, leaving only rows and columns. Huge task, unclear reward, would definitely gather complaints due to removing a feature. I don't think this is feasible right now. 2 is likewise not feasible but due to translation; we can't guarantee that the names would always be in sequential alphabetical order in every language. That leaves 1, which requires abandoning alphabetical ordering within groups in favor of a KDE-determined custom order. For 1st-party widgets, we can do that and ensure these two widgets are always adjacent. But what happens when 3rd-party widgets or tray icons for apps are added to the mix? The beautiful hand-curated ordering would get destroyed by random widgets going in random places. System Settings already has this problem, but it's not much of an issue in practice since 3rd-party KCMs are fairly rare. However 3rd-party system tray widgets and icons are common Thus, I'm not sure this is feasible to do, unfortunately. The only way I can see this being possible is if we offer a feature to opt out of grouping by allowing manual re-arrangement. Then you can move the icons to be adjacent to one another yourself, and any new ones will just appear at the end of the list and you have to move it to where you want yourself. That's already tracked at Bug 384782. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
