[plasmashell] [Bug 358418] Allow widgets to optionally not snap to a grid

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358418

--- Comment #38 from [email protected] ---
I was able to position the applets kinda anywhere by using kde-builder to
compile „plasma-desktop“ with the following patch:

From 63eb36fa491bb1b57d489efc6b63e748cb713ea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Numerfolt <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:07:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Reduce applet grid cellsize to 1 by 1

---
 containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml
b/containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml
index d2bcbd86b9..02a1808205 100644
--- a/containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml
+++ b/containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/main.qml
@@ -305,13 +305,13 @@ ContainmentItem {
             // Sets the containment in edit mode when we go in edit mode as
well
             onEditModeChanged: Plasmoid.containment.corona.editMode =
editMode;

-            minimumItemWidth: Kirigami.Units.gridUnit * 3
-            minimumItemHeight: minimumItemWidth
+            minimumItemWidth: 1
+            minimumItemHeight: 1

-            cellWidth: Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.small
-            cellHeight: cellWidth
-            defaultItemWidth: cellWidth * 6
-            defaultItemHeight: cellHeight * 6
+            cellWidth: 1
+            cellHeight: 1
+            defaultItemWidth: Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.small * 6
+            defaultItemHeight: Kirigami.Units.iconSizes.small * 6

             eventManagerToFilter: (folderViewLayer.item as
FolderViewLayer)?.view.view ?? null

-- 
2.55.0

It's basically the old workaround that reduces the cell size to 1. The drawback
is, that the applet position isn't saved after logging out.

Unfortunately, the file layout seems to use a gridlayout (just as dolphin uses
it) and I haven't been able to find out where to configure it.

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