I am trying to utilize widgets in a sidebar type environment(creating an empty panel, and placing it on the right edge of the screen). Trying to place widgets in this "sidebar" drives me insane! It is the one aspect of KDE I loathe. Often times, I place a widget on the desktop to preview it and it looks great. then I try to drag and drop it in to the sidebar, and the appearance changes completely. Using yawp as an example, here is a before(desktop)/after(sidebar) screen shot http://imgur.com/YBvhQ Is it possible to prevent widgets from changing there layout?

I'm guessing that some widgets are written to display differently when placed in a panel because of space considerations. Yawp settings does have a panel tab which may help you a bit but hovering over the icon should give you the display you want.

When I hover I get this:

google01103 wrote:I'm guessing that some widgets are written to display differently when placed in a panel because of space considerations.

That seems to be the case, but some widgets are able to detect the height and width and use that to decide how to display. CWP for example, displays a single icon if it lacks the space to show a full 3 day forecast. It would be great if there was a way to disable the panel detection and see how it works then.