Bug 433241

*** Bug 433236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think we did it like this because the old Kickoff also adjusted its layout based on its location on screen, and we just copied that feature/design.

FWIW if we kept the layout constant as requested here, it would hugely simplify the code, and also resolve complaints about the order of search results being reversed when the search field is on the bottom (because the search field would never be on the bottom).

Food for thought.

Thanks for consideration! This is spot on: having such search results order (from bottom to top and above the search field) is sort of counter-intuitive for me

yeah, it was grandfathered from the old one

not sure if it's preferable though (might be worth asking on reddit or something)

*** Bug 436859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Git commit 9d9c4f169ed424e976636a6d5fa23c7a1e40576b by Noah Davis.
Committed on 19/07/2021 at 06:47.
Pushed by ndavis into branch 'master'.

Kickoff: Refactor and tweak design

Changes:

- Now uses implicit content size to set the size of the plasmoid, which
fixes translated string elision issues.
- Much simpler code. This is a red patch.
- Reduced RAM usage. Pages that are not in use are unloaded. The models
aren't unloaded, so it shouldn't negatively affect performance in other
ways.
- Vertical movement and opacity animation when switching from normal
page to search view.
- Single horizontal movement and opacity animation when switching from
applications page to places page.
- Opacity animation when switching from favorites grid to apps list.
- KickoffListView and KickoffGridView now support PageUp, PageDown,
Home, End, Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End shortcuts like lists and grids do on
the web. See https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.2/#grid
- KickoffListView/KickoffGridView keyboard navigation disables hovering
to change current item for 100ms. It's meant to filter out accidental
mouse movement while using the arrow keys to navigate.
- Add Ctrl+F shortcut to focus search bar
- Focus the next item down when pressing down while the search bar is
focused instead of focusing the 1st item. The old kickoff did this and
made it faster to select and activate items.
- Hovering near the bottom/top of a view no longer rapidly selects a
series of new items lower down/higher up that are not yet visible.
- Single letter section headers are now horizontally center aligned with
icons.
- Scroll to switch tabs.
- Added pin button to keep the launcher open.
- Show tooltips for list/grid items that have elided text.
- Padding and spacing are more uniform.
- List items have better vertical pixel alignment.
- Fixed pixel alignment of arrows in sidebar category items
- Sidebar list items line up with main content area list items and
section headers
- Labels in grid items now have consistent vertical positions.
- Fixed error in tools.js with favoriteModel.enabled
Related: bug 433103, bug 432270, bug 439140, bug 434736, bug 431913, bug 433146, bug 408313

FIXED-IN: 5.23

M  +7    -3    applets/kickoff/package/contents/config/main.xml
M  +55   -97   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ActionMenu.qml
D  +0    -142  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsGroupView.qml
A  +140  -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsPage.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
D  +0    -358  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsView.qml
A  +88   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/BasePage.qml     [License: GPL (v2+)]
D  +0    -55   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/BaseView.qml
D  +0    -70   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Breadcrumb.qml
D  +0    -41   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ComputerView.qml
M  +31   -11   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml
A  +30   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/EmptyPage.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
D  +0    -129  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FavoritesGridView.qml
D  +0    -133  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FavoritesView.qml
A  +193  -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Footer.qml     [License: GPL (v2+)]
D  +0    -20   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FrequentlyUsedView.qml
M  +119  -736  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml
M  +186  -146  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Header.qml
A  +59   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/HorizontalStackView.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
M  +53   -27   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/Kickoff.qml
D  +0    -93   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffGridItem.qml
M  +200  -288  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffGridView.qml
D  +0    -175  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffItem.qml
A  +227  -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffItemDelegate.qml     [License: GPL (v2+)]
M  +211  -288  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffListView.qml
A  +137  -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffSingleton.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
M  +43   -104  applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/LeaveButtons.qml
A  +53   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/NormalPage.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
A  +76   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/PlacesPage.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
D  +0    -22   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/PlacesView.qml
D  +0    -18   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/RecentlyUsedView.qml
D  +0    -87   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/SearchView.qml
D  +0    -42   applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/SectionDelegate.qml
A  +61   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/VerticalStackView.qml     [License: LGPL(v2.0+)]
M  +1    -1    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/code/tools.js
A  +2    -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/qmldir

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/9d9c4f169ed424e976636a6d5fa23c7a1e40576b