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I am currently writing a wish to the kde bug tracking system.

Feel free to comment and discuss here:

The plasma desktop doesn't feel "solid" when it contains widgets:

When hovering the mouse over a plasma desktop widget a background-frame appears (mouse-over-effect) containing some configuration icons for that widget. In fact, you can move the widget by a single click-and-drag action.

I think that is unconfortable and annoying, especially for widgets like the application icons, the clock or picture frames. They should be part of the desktop background and only a click on the right mouse-button or a special key plus a mouse-over/click should make configuration issues for the widget visible.

We should differ between CONFIGURATION and FUNCTION:
Configuration issues (like moving, preferences, etc.) should be hidden by default so that moving and clicking the mouse over widgets will not show any effect but funtionality. Functional issues of widgets (like starting an application, logging off, etc.) should be the only action that can be done with widgets by default.

Solution:
We need at least the option to make the widget "solid" if the user is happy with position, size, rotation and configuration of the widget.

To go a step further:
This should be done for all “objects” on the desktop/panel or whatever. Configuration could only be done by a special “configuration-key/mouse-action”. Moving, resizing and such things should never haben accidently by a normal user! [/COLOR]

I learned by a speedy reply to my wish that there is somewhere an option to "lock" the desktop. Maybe this is the already implemented idea that a described or at least part of it :-)

Sounds nice. But feel free to comment ...