[kde 4] icons dragged on top of desktop folder view become unclickable (hidden underneath it)

[mathew]

Binary package hint: kdebase

I wondered what the new "Desktop" semi-transparent rectangle was for (called a folder view on the right-click menu). It occurred to me that maybe I could only drag files onto it now, rather than to anywhere on the desktop.

So, I grabbed a PDF file from Dolphin and dropped it on the desktop. Everything worked fine, I ended up with a PDF file on my desktop.

I picked up the PDF icon from my desktop, and dropped it on top of the "Desktop" semi-transparent rectangle. It got dimmer, but seemed otherwise unchanged. I went to pick it up again, and found that no amount of clicking would let me. Click and drag just produced an empty rectangular selection box.

Eventually I worked out that the icon had automatically fallen underneath the semi-transparent folder view, even though I had dropped it on top. I had to work out how to move the folder view in order to be able to click the icon.

I'm also increasingly unclear as to what this folder view rectangle is for, since dragging files onto it doesn't do anything useful, and it doesn't seem to have any help button or menu to explain why it's there.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Thank you for this report. This issue needs to be reported to KDE, so if you feel like it, please forward the report to http://bugs.kde.org

It might take some time until someone from the team gets time to do that... ;-)

[mathew (meta23)]

Reported to KDE as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168041

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Thank you, I linked the report.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Upstream won't fix, and we don't really have the resources to do anything upstream won't do.