Bug 358423

Summary:	"Application Launcher" desktop containment mouse action item only uses app descriptions
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Richard Salts <kdebugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bhush94, cfeck, kde, P.Suetterlin, plasma-bugs, sahildua2305, stevekej
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	5.4.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/bdaaaedbfbbe72673c288a5acc8a8366d3f6bc1e	Version Fixed In:	5.11.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Richard Salts 2016-01-23 12:49:51 UTC

If I use the application menu mouse action item then it always displays the description of the items, rather than giving me an option for the program name. This can be confusing when you have multiple entries for web browser or terminal and can only distinguish between them based on the icon.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
It would be nice if the option was configurable as it is in the application menu settings when using the regular widget.

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-01-23 14:41:22 UTC

You can change it in the settings.

Comment 2 Richard Salts 2016-01-23 21:27:38 UTC

The application menu mouse action doesn't have any settings. Has this been added since 5.4.3?

Comment 3 Eike Hein 2016-01-23 21:53:36 UTC

I assumed you meant the Application Menu widget, sorry. The Application Launcher desktop mouse action is something else and has no settings. Reassigning bug.

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-06-13 21:30:56 UTC

*** Bug 356800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Sahil Dua 2016-06-18 21:28:42 UTC

Hi,

I am new to KDE community. I'd love to contribute here.

Can anyone please guide me regarding setting up dev environment and getting started with my first bug fix?

Thanks,
Sahil

Comment 6 Richard Salts 2016-10-13 23:14:00 UTC

I can easily change [plasma-workspace.git] / containmentactions / applauncher / launch.cpp line 58 to only display the program name, instead of the generic name if it exists. However I think the preference is probably better. Question is, would people prefer to have a preference for the mouse action as a separate thing to the Application Launcher widget? Or would it be okay to use the same preference? If you have multiple application launchers do they use different preferences?

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2016-10-14 01:51:18 UTC

Richard, I suggest to look how the "Standard Menu" action handles its configuration dialog. I tried assigning the "Standard Menu" to both the left and the right mouse button, and indeed the configuration could be changed individually, which makes sense.

If you have more questions, please ask on the plasma-devel mailing list, not on this bug tracker.

Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2017-06-28 22:17:37 UTC

*** Bug 381614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-06-30 08:22:59 UTC

I'll add an option for this.

Comment 10 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-06-30 08:34:15 UTC

Patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6441

Comment 11 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-06-30 08:44:38 UTC

Git commit bdaaaedbfbbe72673c288a5acc8a8366d3f6bc1e by Kai Uwe Broulik.
Committed on 30/06/2017 at 08:43.
Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'.

[AppLauncher Containment Action] Add option to "show apps by name"

This will have it show the actual application name instead of the description.
FIXED-IN: 5.11.0

CHANGELOG: Application launcher mouse action can now be configured to show application names instead of their description

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D6441

M  +4    -1    containmentactions/applauncher/CMakeLists.txt
A  +2    -0    containmentactions/applauncher/Messages.sh
A  +25   -0    containmentactions/applauncher/config.ui
M  +32   -1    containmentactions/applauncher/launch.cpp
M  +11   -0    containmentactions/applauncher/launch.h
M  +1    -0    containmentactions/applauncher/plasma-containmentactions-applauncher.desktop

https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/bdaaaedbfbbe72673c288a5acc8a8366d3f6bc1e