Bug 398403

Summary:	Application Dashboard: Add possibility to remove grouping by ABC
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Rainer Finke <rainer>
Component:	Application Dashboard widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs, scott
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	All applications view on Android

Description Rainer Finke 2018-09-08 20:56:13 UTC

The Application Dashboard groups in the "All Applications" category all applications by ABC including line delimiters. From my point of view it would be nice if this can be removed maybe via an option. 
At least on my system the applications are not evenly distributed per letter and as such there is either a lot of free space or there is a big block of application icons, this then will lead to a lot of scrolling if you want to go from the beginning of the list to the end or the other way around.

Comment 1 Scott Harvey 2018-09-09 00:50:07 UTC

I'm not clear on what you'd prefer to see. 

Do you want one big block of icons with no separators at all? For example, if all the "C" applications ends in the middle of a row, just begin listing "D" applications?

It's a unique request; I'm not sure how many other users would like it, to be honest. 

Give us some details, or ideally use a simple drawing program to make a very simple mockup and attach it here.

Comment 2 Rainer Finke 2018-09-09 09:36:32 UTC

Created attachment 114853 [details]
All applications view on Android

Yes, basically it would be one big block of all application icons. I've attached a screenshot of Android as this should explain my request quite well. Basically the letters and line delimiters would be removed, just like in recent used applications.

Comment 3 Scott Harvey 2018-09-10 15:08:21 UTC

I get it now. Looks just like the App Drawer on my Android tablet. Let me pull in one of our user interface gurus and get his input.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2022-11-30 05:28:13 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-11-30 14:44:25 UTC

Should be marked as wishlist.