Qt.rgba expects 0.0–1.0 floats. Passing 255 for R/G/B saturates
every channel to 1.0, producing opaque white instead of the
intended semi-transparent tint. Fix all call sites across
FavouritesBar, StatusBar, and AbstractDelegate.
The mobile popup system always anchored to top-center which
looked out of place on a desktop screen. In convergence mode,
position popups at the bottom-right corner and slide them in
from below. Swipe-to-dismiss flips to match (drag down to
dismiss instead of up). Stacked card previews and the popup
drawer tap area are hidden since notifications are already
accessible in the action drawer.
Replace the full-screen slide-down sheet with two fade-in cards
anchored to the top corners. Quick settings sit top-right,
notifications top-left capped at 60% screen height. Background
scrim reduced to 30%. Redundant clock header and status bar
hidden since both are already visible in the top panel.
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sound and Battery behave differently from
toggle tiles: tapping them should open a detail panel, not
flip a switch. On a phone the long-press convention handles
this, but with a mouse long-press is unnatural.
Pull these four tiles out of the grid when convergence mode
is active and show them as full-width rows above the remaining
tiles. Each row has two click zones — a toggle pill on the
left that still switches the service on/off, and a detail
area on the right (name, status, chevron) that opens the
Plasma applet popup. The grid hides the duplicates so they
only appear once.
Long-pressing a mapped quick-settings tile in convergence
mode opens a floating popup with the Plasma applet UI
instead of launching System Settings. Unmapped tiles still
open Settings.
AppletHost creates a standalone Corona to host applets
outside the shell containment tree.
open() alone does not set intendedToBeVisible, so the drawer
immediately closes itself. Call the proper toggle path instead.
Also hide the drag handle since convergence users click.
Desktop users have no visual cue that the top bar opens quick
settings. Fade in a small arrow-down icon at the bottom center
when the mouse hovers, matching the arrow-up hint on the
favourites bar.
Drawer is inside the homescreen, which sits behind windows.
Home button minimized everything to reach it. Render it in
a LayerTop window instead and skip the blanket minimizeAll
in the D-Bus handler.
In phone mode, tapping a running app activates its existing
window. In convergence mode this prevents launching a new
instance of the same application.
Skip activateWindowByStorageId when convergence mode is
enabled so that launchApp is always reached, matching
standard desktop launcher behaviour.
The page dots were non-interactive so clicks fell through to the
swipe area and closed the drawer. Set interactive:true and sync
the index back to the SwipeView so clicking a dot switches pages.
Mouse users had no visual cue that clicking the status bar
toggles the action drawer. Add a subtle background highlight
on hover so the bar signals interactivity.
In convergence mode the separate navigation panel is redundant
with window title-bar controls. Remove it by setting its
thickness to zero and visibility to false, then embed Home and
Overview buttons at the left and right ends of the favourites
bar. Running application icons with context menus are shown
between the favourites and the Overview button.
Add HomeScreen::triggerOverview() to invoke the KWin Overview
shortcut over D-Bus so the homescreen containment can open it
without access to the task-panel Plasmoid.
Show numbered desktop indicator buttons between the nav buttons and
the keyboard toggle corner button. Each button highlights the current
desktop and switches on click via VirtualDesktopInfo.requestActivate.
Only visible in convergence mode when multiple desktops exist.
Add Minimize and Maximize/Restore actions to the task strip
right-click context menu alongside the existing Close action.
Reintroduce StatusNotifierModel-based system tray icons, gated on
convergenceModeEnabled. Desktop apps (KDE Connect, nm-applet, etc.)
expose tray icons that were removed in 1914e9be as unusable on
phone screens.
The status bar wrapper is raised above the ActionDrawerOpenSurface
so tray icon MouseAreas receive click events while non-interactive
areas still fall through to the swipe handler.
TaskWidget.qml supports left-click (Activate), right-click
(ContextMenu), hover tooltip, and hides Passive/ApplicationStatus
items. The lockscreen SIGABRT guard (disableSystemTray) is restored
on the action drawer's StatusBar instance.
In convergence mode, show a running-app icon strip in the navigation
panel using the existing TaskManager.TasksModel. Each icon activates
its window on click, with an indicator dot for the active window.
Replace the mobile task switcher button with a KWin Overview trigger:
add triggerOverview() to TaskPanel (D-Bus call to kglobalaccel), swap
the button icon to view-grid-symbolic, and enable the Overview effect
in the envmanager KWin config when convergence mode is active.
Wire convergenceMode and taskModel properties from
NavigationPanelComponent through to NavigationPanel so the task strip
populates from the existing TasksModel instance.
Use the new SwipeArea clicked() signal to open/close the action
drawer on a single click when convergence mode is enabled. The
existing swipe gesture remains available as a fallback.
Emit clicked() when a press-and-release occurs without any swipe
movement. This allows consumers to distinguish taps from swipe
gestures on the same surface.
Add PLASMA_MOBILE_LOCAL_KAUTH_INSTALL CMake option to redirect KAuth
helper executables, D-Bus service files, and polkit policy files into
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX instead of hardcoded /usr paths.
Guard KF6Auth find_package calls in helper subdirectories with
if(NOT TARGET KF6::AuthCore) to avoid re-running find_package after
the top-level override, which would revert generated service Exec
paths back to /usr/libexec/kf6/kauth.
I noticed at some point after updating my main phone, that non visible external device batteries started taking up extra space in the statusbar. This fixes the issue by filtering out external device batteries by using KSortFilterProxyModel.
Before (with external peripheral connected)
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After
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The system tray has not been useful on mobile and isn't particularly
interactable due to its small size. Remove the system tray from the
status bar, if we need its functionality it would be more appropriate to
create a larger "tray UI" in the quicksettings area
This adds a gesture handle mode to the navigation panel, which can be
enabled during gesture-only mode. This reserves space for the system
gesture to be able to be used, allowing us to extend the height in KWin
of the gesture recognition area (which is currently far too short for devices such as Pixel 3a).
This also allows for navigation with a mouse; clicking on the handle
triggers the task switcher, holding it triggers the "home" action.
The startup feedback uses theme adjusted colors, we can use standard
foreground colors for the panels for better contrast rather than relying
on the shadow.
