Hiding vs. locking functionality

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> When the "lock widgets" feature was introduced, it took me some time to
> realise that it was the reason why I could not change the wallpaper
> anymore. In fact I could not only not change it, but the whole menu-item
> was gone. Which common user knows/needs to know that the wallpaper is a
> widget?

your build is out of date =)

> Even worse for the "add applets" button which was gone some days later too.

that's what "lock widgets" means. what point is there in adding a widget if 
you can adjust its location, etc?

this is not new in plasma, btw, but exactly how it was implemented in kicker 
with not complaints recv'd.

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