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This is a variation of this idea: brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=85102 , which suggests moving plasmoids around or off a panel should be more intuitive. unfortunately, the proposed solution seems to be impossible in Plasma...

Instead, I was thinking that it could be made so that when you hover over a plasmoid on a panel, a handle appears, that has the same functionality as the plasmoids on the desktop.

The handle should be parallel to the panel, a few pixels off (like the tooltips). It should appear above any tooltips that the plasmoid creates. (above as in z axis). The handle may have to be wider then the plasmoids, as most are small (such as the clock). The handle may also have to be off center for the plasmoids toward the screen edge, so the handle also should have two small arrows pointing at the left most point, and right most point (or top most and bottom most point) of the plasmoid that created it, so that its clear what plasmoid the handle is controling.

(The handle idea could also solve another idea here on this board, to have the option to resize and rotate the plasmoids on the panel) brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=39335#anchormain

The behavior should be have the ability to be toggled from the panels cashew menu as a button, next to add widgets, or something, as "show drag handles on hover" and then "don't show drag handles on hover". (It will have to be made clear that that option is effecting that panel, not the whole desktop, or other panels)

The option will stay enabled until the user disables it, even when the cashew menu is closed, the option stays enabled, until the user disables it manualy.

What do you think?

There are handles in 4.5 now, but they only show up when the panel toolbox is activated.