Bug 346601

Summary: Allow automatic sorting for favorites in Application Launcher
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: msmigiel
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)Assignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bugseforuns, kdeu, marco_parillo, nate, niels.misc, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description msmigiel 2015-04-24 23:18:06 UTC
I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 on a fresh install inside VirtualBox on a Windows XP SP3 host.

This is simulated on a fresh Kubuntu install. In "Application Launcher Settings", I choose "Show applications by name". On the Favorites tab, I right click on one of the entries (for example, Firefox) and say "Sort Alphabetically (A-Z)".

However, the applications are not sorted by application name but rather their title. Since I am showing applications by name, I would expect sorting to honor that. The bug is that sorting should honor whatever I am showing the applications as (by name or purpose) but it only sorts by purpose.

For example, after sorting, I see this (parenthesis is for the smaller dark text underneath):

Dolphin
(File Manager)
IM Contacts
(Instant Messenger Contacts)
Kontact
(Personal Information Manager)
System Settings
(System Settings)
Konsole
(Terminal)
Firefox Web Browser
(Web Browser)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Application Launcher, choose "Show applications by name".
2. In Application Launcher, in Favorites, right click on an entry and choose "Sort Alphabetically (A-Z)".
3. Observer that the sorting is not alphabetical by application name (despite it being prominent) but rather by application purpose (the darker text underneath).

Actual Results:  
The sorting is not alphabetical by application name (despite it being prominent) but rather by application purpose (the darker text underneath).

Expected Results:  
The sorting should be by whatever is chosen (either application name or purpose).
Comment 1 Lukas Ba. 2017-02-06 18:38:13 UTC
The sort feature was removed.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-10-20 15:58:05 UTC
*** Bug 357125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2018-10-31 01:59:40 UTC
There is no sort feature on favourites
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-11-18 02:37:19 UTC
Then let's use this bug report to track adding/re-adding it. :)
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-11-19 04:17:41 UTC
What would make sense to me is a three-way sort option chooser:

Sort by: () Program name
         () Program description
         () Manual ordering
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2021-01-06 17:52:22 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393401 ***