| Summary: | Kicker's KRunner result UI scales poorly as more runners are added | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Christian (Fuchs) <kde> |
| Component: | Application Menu (Kicker) widget | Assignee: | Eike Hein <hein> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, martin+kde, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 5.11.95 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375857 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480692 |
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| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/ebe917e703ea6da3d30f368879d0e5ae9ac50ccf | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 6.4.0 |
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Description
Christian (Fuchs)
2018-01-18 10:09:12 UTC
Same wish but for Kickoff - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382760 Kicker and Kickoff use the same backend; marking this as a duplicate of Bug 382760. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 382760 *** I don't agree with the duping. It's true they use the same backend and have equal abilities to use or not use runner plugins, but whether or not to do so is much more down to the respective UI. E.g. Kickoff uses a single linear list to show all results, Kicker uses a column for each runner. They scale differently. OK, un-duping. Let's use this bug to track refining Kicker's UI to better support an arbitrary set of runners so it doesn't become comically wide, and we'll keep Bug 382760 to track enabling/exposing the feature for both of them. Does that sound okay? We can, I'm not sure we've made those decisions yet though :) *** Bug 505061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3046 Git commit 4fcf99d2601ee1367db4bf4d0b1d50a1c217b287 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 09/06/2025 at 16:17. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: make runner columns horizontally scrollable When additional runners are enabled and there are hits from many of them, kicker's runner columns can easily overflow. This makes some of them inaccessible and looks as broken as it is (including potentially escaping the representation width). Instead we limit the maximum width by screen width, and make the whole thing horizontally scrollable if the content is larger than that. Keyboard navigation is adjusted to make the focused element visible, mouse use does not scroll by itself (as that is very disorienting). M +38 -3 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/MenuRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/4fcf99d2601ee1367db4bf4d0b1d50a1c217b287 Git commit ebe917e703ea6da3d30f368879d0e5ae9ac50ccf by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 09/06/2025 at 17:17. Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. applets/kicker: make runner columns horizontally scrollable When additional runners are enabled and there are hits from many of them, kicker's runner columns can easily overflow. This makes some of them inaccessible and looks as broken as it is (including potentially escaping the representation width). Instead we limit the maximum width by screen width, and make the whole thing horizontally scrollable if the content is larger than that. Keyboard navigation is adjusted to make the focused element visible, mouse use does not scroll by itself (as that is very disorienting). (cherry picked from commit 4fcf99d2601ee1367db4bf4d0b1d50a1c217b287) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +38 -3 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/MenuRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/ebe917e703ea6da3d30f368879d0e5ae9ac50ccf |