https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407041
Bug ID: 407041
Summary: Desktop Panel "Visibility" Settings Not Available
Through Scripting
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.15.2
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: task
Priority: NOR
Component: Panel
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
There is no scripting interface to set a panels "Visibility" option.
Additionally, if this option (for my test it was [PlasmaViews][Panel
173]panelVisibility in ~/plasmashellrc) is changed in a script or with
kwriteconfig5, calling the panel's reloadConfig() method does not reload this
option.
To me the issue appears to partially stem from this particular option not being
saved in the same file and group as other panel options, so I think
reloadConfig() does not catch the change. As far as visibility not being
scriptable, I'm not surprised it hasn't been caught because it's probably not
common, I came across this with a pretty obscure use-case. Anyway, it looks
like this other bug is related: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396796 ,
bug id #396796
In my personal case, I want to toggle between panelVisibility 0 and 3 which are
"Always Visible" and "Windows Can Cover." I can get the same functionality I
need by going another route, but I think it would be better if I could do it
with plasma scripting.
To be clear, I would expect that the Panel object in the scripting interface
would have a method to change the visibility option. Additionally, if this
option gets changed, the reloadConfig() method should reflect the changed
option.
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