Bug 264080

Summary:	New Launchers feature gets broken for forced two rows in task manager. Displays incorrectly
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	SiMH <plddev>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, aspotashev, blackdeagle89, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description SiMH 2011-01-23 14:55:26 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.95) 
OS:                Linux

The new 'Launchers' feature in KDE 4.6 is great, the problem is that Launchers obey the "row count" and "force row settings"
of the task manager, meaning that for, deafult, on row settings it looks good: http://imagebin.org/133997
If you use however forced two rows in task manager, which I do, it looks terrible: http://imagebin.org/133996 
If you can't see this, those two 'dots' are actually dolphin and smplayer icons. Complately unusable.

I think it should look more like that: http://imagebin.org/133998 meaning that launchers should not be affected by the row settings in task manager setup.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just make at least two launchers (right click on any task in task manager, select advanced and "make a launcher") and then open task manager settings and check "force row settings" and select row count to 2.

Actual Results:  
Your taskbar will look like this http://imagebin.org/133996

Expected Results:  
It should look like this: http://imagebin.org/133998

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2011-01-28 00:16:50 UTC

i agree that it would make more sense to have the launchers in their own independent layout. a fair amount of work, but doable.

Comment 2 Kolia 2011-12-03 23:35:17 UTC

*** Bug 270880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-22 10:36:38 UTC

Is this still valid with KDE 4.8.3 or trunk?

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2012-05-22 10:58:45 UTC

yes, it is still valid though now at least they are "correctly" laid out (they aren't microscopic dots, but full-width buttons). however, this still isn't great as they take up way too much space as a result. they still need to be put into a separate layout. as this is being re-done in QML, i expect that will address the issue when it is complete.

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-22 13:29:52 UTC

Thanks for the fast feedback, setting version correctly.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:52:48 UTC

Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham

Comment 7 Alexander Potashev 2025-08-03 16:02:27 UTC

Probably a similar issue here in Plasma 6.4.1: The launchers look like https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=167154 (not my screenshot, found at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483525 ). The launcher icons are tiny, however waste screen real estate for no reason.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Kernel Version: 6.15.4-100.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 16 ГиБ of RAM (15.4 ГиБ usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® HD Graphics 530
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M