Windows 11 has a feature where notification area icons can be reordered through drag and drop operations, moving an icon behind the arrow symbol will make the icon hidden.
this system is more intuitive than the menu system Plasma currently uses to hide or reorder notification area icons.
Welcome aboard. I say have both. For someone like myself the drag option is great, but for someone like my roommate his hand shake way to much for that to work without him misplacing icons because of his shaking.
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my suggestion would be to allow drag and drop but only in the configuration settings page for the system tray entries, similar to how it was done for the krunner entries (only less buggy 
the order shown in the systems tray configuration, entries tab, should be the same as seen in the system tray and each item should be drag-able to change its position.
that would accomplish two things:
- correspondence 1:1 between what is shown in the settings and what is seen in the tray
- allow users the long asked for ability to rearrange these icons
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Hi! Just a note, this topic would likely be involved in any solution for the open ticket in the KDE Bugtracking System - where developers look for and manage feature requests - about reordering tray icons: 384782 â Allow manually re-ordering tray icons
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Funny because Iâm a disabled person with shaking and Iâve been trying for years to get this feature so that I can put the buttons where I like them instead of being forced to do something thatâs already hard, in hard mode.
Being more shaky makes stuff like this more helpful, not less⌠Up to a point. Of course, for those of us with bad enough symptoms that dragânâdrop simply isnât physiologically practical, we need to take measures to mitigate that system-wide (such as forcing mouse button release events after a timer, using alternative input devices like footswitches, locking mouse position during clicks, etc) so having a feature like this is of no greater consequence than the fact that you can dragânâdrop everything else.
Dragânâdrop is everywhere and people who canât do it, deal with it. This feature is requested a couple of times per week for over 8 years now. Iâve ridden a few attempts to their ultimate demise, when finding the âright wayâ to do this, prevented actually doing it. Letâs not invent new things to slow it down. Us cripples will be fine, but it was nice of you to think of us
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If youâve got something of substance to add weâd all like to hear it.
For example, I pointed out that dnd is everywhere, one example is the task manager right next to these icons, another is that thereâs likely also an applicationâs window directly above them. You could explain how this is different to that, for example. I pointed out that we have mitigations in place, you might explain how it is that they wouldnât work for this like they do for other things. I pointed out that allowing repositioning icons allows them to be more accessible, you could talk about how it doesnâtâŚ
You get the idea. Donât just âyouâre wrongâ, tell us why! Give us something useful that we can work with. Enlighten us.
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