Bug 366480

Summary: Restore ability to fix the position of launched application whose launcher was manually sorted
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: zellox <zellox>
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgetsAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: plasma-bugs-null, zellox
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description zellox 2016-08-06 22:52:13 UTC 
In KDE 5.7.2 (or maybe earlier?) I noticed a fantastic change where by whenever you launched an application that had a manually sorted launcher, it would always open in a fixed position that corresponds to where the launcher icon was (ala the Windows task bar). e.g. if you had Chromium as your first launcher, opening it would leave the other launchers to the right of the chrome window, and this would persist across restarts.

I've been wanting this feature for many years in KDE and was happy to finally see it come to KDE.

However, after updating to plasma 5.7.3, the feature (or bug?) was removed and the behaviour reverted back to how it was previously. I would like to see this added as an option if possible. I tried searching for the change on git (https://github.com/KDE/plasma-desktop/tree/master/applets/taskmanager) but could not locate it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable manual sorting with the taskbar and pin multiple application launchers
2. Open the first pinned application.

Actual Results:  
The application opens to the right of the other launchers.

Expected Results:  
The application opens where it's launcher is, and the other launchers (non-opened) remain to the right of the opened application.
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-08-07 09:50:46 UTC 
See the "Keep launchers separate" checkbox.
Comment 2 zellox 2016-08-07 10:04:39 UTC 
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #1)
> See the "Keep launchers separate" checkbox.

Thanks, didn't notice that before... Is that a new feature with the rewritten task manager?
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2016-08-07 10:56:50 UTC 
Aye, it's new in 5.7!
Comment 4 zellox 2016-08-10 11:56:03 UTC 
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #3)
> Aye, it's new in 5.7!

Excellent, thanks for that!