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When you want to move plasmoids from a task bar to the desktop, it is a bit confusing : first, the widget is stucked in the bar, and when the mouse cursor is far away from the bar it suddenly appears in the desktop.

And when you want to move a widget from the desktop to the bar, it suddenly appears in the bar, and you can't move it any longer (you have to toogle the plasmathing and activate the "move widgets in bar" mode etc.)

Moving widgets in a bar is also very rigide, without any smooth animations.

Vista used a very smooth way to animate widgets moving from and into the vista bar. What about using animations to help people moving, and managing their widgets easily ?

The problem with having the widgets resize smoothly is that Qt, the toolkit on which KDE is based, is very, very slow at resizing things.

Even resizing a clock widget on a core i7 with proprietary NVIDIA graphics on KDE 4.6.x is laughably slow.

This would probably be easier once the QML switchover is completed.

TheBlackCat wrote:This would probably be easier once the QML switchover is completed.

Which is slated to happen when, exactly? I keep hearing conflicting reports (even on the newsfeeds).

They are working on it now. There is also a suggestion to have this done more comprehensively for a GSOC project. We will likely see at least a few widgets converted for 4.7 (such as the kmix applet, which a lot of work is going into right now), and hopefully many more for 4.8. When the panel will be converted I do not know.