Bug 414717

Summary:	Unclear how to remove an app from Favorites when using multiple activities
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component:	Application Launcher (Kickoff)	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.17.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alexander Potashev 2019-12-01 11:18:33 UTC

SUMMARY
Unclear how to remove an app from Favorites.

Starting with around Plasma 5.16.x, there is no menu item "Remove from Favorites" in context menu of the Favorites tab anymore. This makes removing an application from favorites not straightforward.

Now, in order to remove an app from Favorites, you have to open the submenu "Show in Favorites" and uncheck "in all activities". In my opinion this approach is complicated, non-intuitive and hard to discover.

Please add a shortcut item "Remove from Favorites" into the root of the context menu.

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EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.64.0
Qt Version: 5.14.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-12-02 20:48:05 UTC

> Starting with around Plasma 5.16.x, there is no menu item "Remove from
> Favorites" in context menu of the Favorites tab anymore.
Works for me with a single activity. What you describe is only present when using more than one activity. But yes, the UI here is pretty confusing.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-09-08 15:04:55 UTC

Played with this a bit and couldn't really find a better UI, unfortunately.