So, I had to delete my panel accidentally and had to add the widgets back to it. I am having 2 issues. There used to be a widget that would tell me when new updates were available. I cannot find it in the list of available widgets on “Add or Manage Widgets” menu.
Also, how do I even reorder the widgets around?
Everything starting from the “Networks” icon and to its left all move in unison in edit mode.
there is currently a bug in kubuntu 24.10 that prevents the discover item from showing in the system try unless you have pending updates.
with pending updates will then be able to find it on the configure system tray screen
the system tray widgets cannot be reordered, they are where they are.
best you can do is hide the ones you don’t want showing and then you can find them behind the < pop out menu icon.
I am on Fedora KDE 41. Also, it used to show when I had a pending update until I accidentally reset my panel.
Is there a reason why I can move my battery charge icon around but not the rest? Can I “embed” them there like the battery charge icon?. Even Cinnamon allows this.
You have a separate battery widget on your panel. The system tray itself is panel widget, and as mentioned, you can’t reorder the tray icons that are inside it.
However, many things in the tray do have separate widgets available, but probably not for all of them. You can add these to your panel and move them around as you like.
Then, you can either hide or disable the items in the system tray that you have added panel widgets for.
Yeah, for some reason upon restarting my computer, it got stuck in blinking cursor… So, I had to go tty3 and made it reboot. Now, I can see the discover icon and the immovable battery icon in system tray, in addition to my separate widget.
I realize that system tray widgets currently cannot be reordered. Is this a planned feature, though?
No
Or rather I do not believe so. The topic comes up every once in a while over the decades I’ve use KDE and Plasma, as far as my memory recalls. The consensus over that time has been (again from memory) “no” to adding this, and/or no one has stepped up to the plate to create this in a stable/sane/acceptable/etc manner.
Tbh it has sort of become more prominent in recent years when they moved to using large icons instead of the tiny and multi-row ones on the tray. Visually there is no real difference between a panel widget and a tray icon depending on the theming.
In that case, the only “workaround” is using individual widgets, so long as they are available?
Yes, this is correct.