Bug 375372

Summary:	Ability to choose activity to pin apps while they are not running
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Alexandre Pereira <pereira.alex>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	funkybomber, ivan.cukic, nate, plasma-bugs-null, svckd
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.24
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Right click menu does not include a "Pin" action.

Description Alexandre Pereira 2017-01-21 13:39:15 UTC

Hi,

In current master ( 5.8.95, soon to be plasma 5.9 ), testing the pin to activity in taskmanager, doesn't allow to choose the activity the icon is pinned to while it is not running. It does allow when its running, but not when running.

Some distributions and some apps, don't work correctly with taskmanager ( kmail for example and chrome apps in most distributions ( i know it works well on some though ). It is important to be able to configure the pin to activity while the app isnt running, or in those distributions/situations, it will be impossible to use it.

Also its easier to configure the pining without having to open the application.

Thanks !

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2017-01-21 14:03:58 UTC

I guess we might eventually add the per-activity submenu to the context menu of Kicker-based launchers.

Comment 2 Alexandre Pereira 2017-01-21 14:08:40 UTC

It would be extremely nice!

Thanks.

Comment 3 funkybomber 2018-02-17 04:32:56 UTC

Created attachment 110738 [details]
Right click menu does not include a "Pin" action.

Hello, I think that the issue I face is related to this one. When I search in the Application Launcher to find an application to Pin to the Task Manager, I don't have the option to do so. The only option I get is to "Open Containing Folder".

Please see attached file.

Perhaps adding the "Pin" option to this menu (the menu that appears on right click) could help solve the OP's issue as well.

Comment 4 Eike Hein 2018-02-17 19:14:17 UTC

I think this is because "waterfox" is just a file/binary search result, it's not a menu entry search result.

Alternatively, Pin for search result was actually only added in 5.11.x IIRC, if you're on an older ver perhaps.

Comment 5 funkybomber 2018-02-18 05:43:38 UTC

No, I tested this on Plasma 5.12.1

Comment 6 Nuno Costa 2018-08-11 08:08:22 UTC

I'm also seeing that there is no option to pin to task manager, when you search for kmail in the Application Launcher although you can pin Kmail Header Theme Editor application.
Maybe this Pin option is some missing configuration in the application itself, that needs to expose this feature?

Comment 7 Nuno Costa 2018-08-11 08:09:45 UTC

Forgot to add that I'm on Fedora 28, Plasma 5.13.3.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2022-04-25 17:15:58 UTC

This seems to be implemented in Plasma 5.24 now.

Comment 9 Alexandre Pereira 2022-04-25 17:40:27 UTC

indeed, just tested it! really cool!

thanks for updating this bug report!