I like the look of floating panels but neither of the floating options prevent them from “shifting” when a window’s frames is aligned against it.
Is there a way to turn this animation/behaviour off? Or achieve a floating look without the floating panel applied so it is static?
I noticed this too. If no window is touching the bottom panel, it floats and you see space between it and the very bottom of the screen. As soon as a window touches it, it moves to touch the bottom of the screen. If it touches the bottom of the screen, it really isn’t floating.
No by default but Panel Colorizer widget can add margins, it requires some configuration but the built-in “Fake Floating” preset is enough to get started using it this way requires building and installing the panel colorizer C++ plugin so make sure do that first if you want to try it.
Panel Colorizer abuses QML to do these (temporary) modifications so use it with caution and don’t report panel bugs to KDE without removing it first.
Ya i decided to just turn floating off and use colorizer with a fully transparent status bar. It’s just odd to add an animation without having the option to remove it. Thank you!
