Hi,

yesterday I found this cool Plasma feature of grouping plasmoids. However, all my plasmoids, which are not in the panel, are on a separate dashboard, i.e. I keep my desktops clean of plasmoids. So, is it possible to group the dashboard plasmoids and if yes, how? There is an article in userbase only about GroupingDesktop. I'm using KDE 4.7.4 on Archlinux.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I think the KDE guys should "advertise" better such nice features as grouping. I've been using KDE4 since 4.0 and I read regularly Planet KDE, but I didn't know about grouping plasmoids until yesterday

From what I can tell - from when I have tried this unfortunately does not work.

bcooksley wrote:From what I can tell - from when I have tried this unfortunately does not work.

I guess, I should make a feature request... or maybe check if it's implemented in 4.8.

I performed my testing on a KDE Trunk system - which is to be 4.9. I would recommend filing a feature request report in this case.

There is already a request for this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258167

TheBlackCat wrote:There is already a request for this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258167

Great! Thanks, I couldn't find it.

Back when I used KDE 4.4 it was possible with some trickery... I wanted to have a clean desktop too, so I tried the same thing. You have edit the plasma-desktoprc or plasma-desktop-appletsrc. There you have to find the value defining which type of containment your dashboard is and modify it to the one telling it to be grouping.

Best way to achieve this, is checking what changes in these files if you change the type of your desktop. But note that you maybe break your current plasma configuration, so save these files. If you're still up to it - you can these files in ~/.kde/share/config.


Make sure you do the editing while not being logged into KDE (shell via vim or the like).

I killed my plasma configurations many times back then, so I'm currently more into waiting until such features show up in the GUI. Do that at your own risk!!! I currently don't know how to do it, but it was possible back then!!!