Bug 357764

Summary:	application menus have only icon plasmoid view
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	andreas <kainz.a>
Component:	Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hein, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/20ea3f6362e68eedb44ab93569301cee06574333	Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description andreas 2016-01-09 22:30:10 UTC

kicker, kickoff and the dashboard plasmoid only have an icon view mode BUT the design goal was that every plasmoid has an icon view AND an desktop view (larger size).
I think the application launchers could be useful on the desktop as well. So the user want to add kicker to the desktop and search there after applications or files. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-01-09 22:44:09 UTC

Kickoff already uses the full repr when you make it big enough.

Kicker can have something similar.

Dashboard will not.

Comment 2 andreas 2016-01-09 23:03:15 UTC

Ah have it ok Kickoff look nice.

I think it would be not that difficult to add a desktop view for Kicker and it would bring more consistency  to the plasmoids

As fare as I know in kde4 there was something like a kiosk mode where you have an fullscreen application louncher for small devices (netbooks) so why the dashboard will not be available as desktop plasmoid?

Comment 3 Eike Hein 2016-01-09 23:09:56 UTC

See https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2015-December/047275.html

Comment 4 andreas 2016-01-09 23:27:36 UTC

ok then exclude the dashboard cause you have realy good reasons.

Comment 5 Eike Hein 2016-01-10 17:06:34 UTC

Git commit 20ea3f6362e68eedb44ab93569301cee06574333 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 10/01/2016 at 17:06.
Pushed by hein into branch 'master'.

Make Kicker transition into full repr on desktop.

M  +3    -2    applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/MenuRepresentation.qml
M  +4    -1    applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/main.qml

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/20ea3f6362e68eedb44ab93569301cee06574333