Bug 447357

Summary: Default Kickoff height shows scrollbar with tiny scroll space
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Björn Feber <bfeber>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446469
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Kickoff Scrollbar

Description Björn Feber 2021-12-21 19:20:47 UTC
Created attachment 144762 [details]
Kickoff Scrollbar

SUMMARY
The current default Kickoff height shows a scrollbar with tiny scroll area instead of the menu being a bit taller and not requiring a scrollbar.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Kickoff on a default setup

OBSERVED RESULT
There is a scrollbar.

EXPECTED RESULT
There is no scrollbar by default.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-11 23:00:52 UTC
Unfortunately this is not generically fixable due to differences in fonts, scaling, installed apps etc.

That said, it would be fixed for you if https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/699 is merged.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-07-05 16:51:58 UTC
This is mooted by the changes in Plasma 5.26 to make the popup resizable, so now you can make it perfectly able to accommodate as many list items as you want without scrolling, no matter what font or font size you use.

The only remaining issue would be to make it do this by default, which doesn't have a high enough reward-to-effort ratio methinks. Closing, sorry. :)