I’d like be able to decide which panels are floating and which aren’t, instead of having a global “all/none floating” switch.
My reasoning is: floating popup panels looks pretty good, but the taskbar only looks good on smaller displays. If you have an 21:9 display (or just a very large 16:9 display I guess), instead of a taskbar it looks like some window with weirdly sized window, and it’s kind of awkward (I know, not really an objective metric).
I could solve this by using “fit-content” instead of “fit-width” for the taskbar but then it becomes uncomfortable to use so I’d rather leave floating panels disabled.
If I could have all panels floating except for the task bar I think it would look great. In fact, that’s how gnome’s topbar behaves.
So, I think it would be a good improvement to have a global setting and per panel exception, (even just for the taskbar it would be fine, but why not for everything at this point).
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mine has a floating/not floating toggle on each panel already if you click on it in edit mode. looks good for me , i’m on a 4k 55inch tv n sit relatively close to it
I see, I must have had the wrong undestanding that the taskbar and the menus that pop up from the taskbar were different panels. Still, it is not usefull to me because I want the floating popups and nonfloating taskbar
Oh, so a more accurate tittle for the topic would have been something like “Allow floating popups in non-floating taskbar/panel”
That feature has already been implemented and will land on Plasma 6.4 Expose option to always ask for floating dialogs (!1912) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
Note that it works per panel and not per applet (widget) but I think that’s exactly what you want
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ahh i see what you mean i hadn’t read it that way . with some clearity i gave it a look and yeah that doesn’t look good lol . its good that it looks like an option is being added for people.