Plasma freeze when it gets wide enough for a popup widget

[itzikiap]

Hi guys, I’m not sure if it’s a plasma or the specific widget issue, so I’m posting my finding here. Sorry if it’s reads like an unstructured blog.
I’m using plasma 6.2
I’ve added a panel to the side, and made it quite wide (about 350px) with auto hide.
My intention was to make control station widget show fully instead of just the button to make it pop up. In this width, the widget was still shown as a button, so I’ve widened the panel. For a brief time it worked, the widget shown fully on the auto hide panel, but after restarting, the panel froze the second my mouse hit the screen edge to show it.

I’ve restarted plasma with plasmashell --replace and plasma restarted with all the logs in the terminal. The panel width configuration was not saved, so I was able to gradually expand it until it reached the widget’s width and it froze.

The terminal got in to infinite loop spamming this message repeatedly:

QQuickItem: Cannot use same item on different windows at the same time.
QQuickItem: Cannot use same item on different windows at the same time.

^C plasmashell --replace it’s ok now.

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Other than this, there are two more questions:
Is it the widget’s responsibility to decide whether to show an icon or a panel?
How do I close konsole without closing plasma?

Thank you

[johnandmegh]

Hi - I’m definitely not a Plasma developer, but it might help folks with that kind of experience if you’d be able to share screenshots of the setup you’re going for?

That way folks could visualize the scenario you’ve set up a bit more easily, and also more easily reproduce it on their devices or possibly notice subtle things that could be the key to identifying a bug

[Archie]

I’ve tried, as an experiment, to make 3 separate panels – (1) launcher+pager, (2) icon-only taskbar, and (2) systray – on the same position but it doesn’t work. The panels just goes vertically on top of each other.

An option to go horizontally side-by-side would be something else.

[itzikiap]

Hi, thanks.
Here’s the screenshot:

The right panel is auto hide, and I was trying to make it as wide as the control station widget. As it is right now, when the huge button opens the widget, it works, but when widening the panel until it reaches the widget width - plasma freezes.

I understand this is not exactly the intended use, but plasma shouldn’t freeze in any case.

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[itzikiap]

The widget Panel Colorizer is amazing for this task.
In one panel you can separate the widgets visually, and have the effect of 3 separate panels.

Panel Colorizer for Plasma 6

Made this small but fully configurable plasmoid whose sole purpose is to inject/manage the background of other widgets in the same panel, the goal was to replicate the famous WM status bar look without actually making other widgets or modifying the panel itself. I think the result looks interesting for something that I figured out was possible just a couple days ago. This is the first release so it may have some unexpected bugs [Screenshot_20240219_040305] You can see it …

[Archie]

I’ve already been using it for several months and have included a customized preset. A few days ago, I updated to 2.0.0. The plasmoid is on my watchlist.