Bug 442932

Summary:	Everything but the all applications section in kickoff will use grid view when that option is turned on.
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Dashon <dashonwwIII>
Component:	Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	dashonwwIII, mikel5764, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git-master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Dashon 2021-09-25 07:40:33 UTC

SUMMARY
I was using kdeneon unstable in a virtual machine. I like to fire it up every other day to test things and I noticed that there was an option in kickoff to use grid view essentially everywhere. However, the all applications section seems to be the only one that is different. I didn't know whether this was intentional or not. Hence, this bug report.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Change "Show other applications" to the "in a Grid" setting.
2. Hover over every section one by one.


OBSERVED RESULT
Every section but "All applications" has grid view.

EXPECTED RESULT
All sections including "All applications" are shown in a grid view.

Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-36-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 2 × Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-09-27 21:14:23 UTC

I believe this is intentional, since the "All Applications" view is a flat alphabetical list separated by letter, and it was believed that a list is always superior to a grid for this use case.

Comment 2 Dashon 2021-09-28 02:03:47 UTC

Alright, thanks for clearing that up.