Bug 177331

Summary:	sort alphabetically by primary name, not applicaton name
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Jonathan Jesse <jjesse>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	arvidjaar, aseigo, jjesse, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	screenshot from my phone of sorting Example of mis-sorted application list

Description Jonathan Jesse 2008-12-09 19:56:49 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

When I right-click in the application launcher and select sort alphabetically the sort is by application name, not primary name which is displayed.
problem with this is the primary name is what people are scanning and the application name is not displayed until mouse over, so it is impossible to figure out how the sort is done.

Jonathan

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-09 22:13:22 UTC

"application launcher "

do you mean the taskbar? or? and by "primary name" you mean the title as shown in the window?

if so .. how would that work with grouping by program? =)

Comment 2 Jonathan Jesse 2008-12-09 23:23:36 UTC

Sorry by application launcher I am refering to Kickoff, sorry about that.

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-10 20:25:10 UTC

... there is no such setting in kickoff. where are you seeing this option, exactly?

Comment 4 Jonathan Jesse 2008-12-10 20:38:29 UTC

seeing this in the favorites section, open kickoff, right click select sort alphabetically (a to z) and the opposite option sort alpahbetically (z to a)

sorry if i am not using the right term for this.

trying to capture a screen

Comment 5 Jonathan Jesse 2008-12-10 20:48:45 UTC

Created attachment 29221 [details]
screenshot from my phone of sorting

screenshot of short alpahabettically

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-10 21:20:17 UTC

aha! ok.. so it's the context menu on items in the favourites page. thanks, it's all clear now =)

p.s. there's an awesome screenshot app called ksnapshot in kdegraphics =)

Comment 7 Jonathan Jesse 2008-12-10 21:25:57 UTC

Glad it finally made sense, was having a problem with ksnapshot and capturing a right click option.  maybe i just dont know how to capture the image correctly.

was trying to open up both kickoff and take a new snapshot at same time.

thanks the quick response to the my bug Aaron.

Jonathan

Comment 8 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-12-10 21:45:43 UTC

"having a problem with ksnapshot and capturing a right click option"

trick is to select Region mode and set a timeout (e.g. 5 seconds) that allows you to set up the screenshot =)

Comment 9 Andrey Borzenkov 2009-01-06 09:15:57 UTC

I confirm this bug. Entries in kickoff tabs are sorted according to application *name* (like KNode, Konqueror etc) but kickoff displays application *description* (like News client, Web browser). So even for English application list appears unsorted; and for non-English locale it is totally random. I attach screenshot; notice Akregator on top; in Russian its name starts with a letter from the last part of alphabet and should be sorted as one of last entries.

Comment 10 Andrey Borzenkov 2009-01-06 09:16:49 UTC

Created attachment 29962 [details]
Example of mis-sorted application list

Comment 11 Nicolas L. 2009-03-06 03:33:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 184392 ***