| Summary: | application launcher (cascading) broken | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | David Chmelik <dchmelik> |
| Component: | Application Menu (Kicker) widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.25.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Slackware | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: |
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Description
David Chmelik
2022-05-19 04:24:19 UTC
Can you attach a screenshot of the widget you're using so I can be sure we're on the same page? Also, are you using X11 or Wayland? X11. I guess I could use <PrtScn> to screenshot, but that version doesn't respect the choice to use the active window, rather screenshotting all monitors, so I'd have a lot of editing to do, and I'm using XFCE desktop environment now (much faster)... maybe I'll do it later. I do need that screenshot to proceed. <PRINTSCREEN> disappears menus, but should be very easy/quick to test. I can't test it because I'm unsure what thing you're specifically talking about: Kicker? Kickoff? Old Kickoff? A 3rd-party launcher menu? Hence my request for a screenshot so I can know what it is. Spectacle has a timer function that lets you schedule a screenshot several seconds in the future. You can use those seconds to open the menu in question. Or you can take a picture with your phone. Created attachment 149191 [details]
screen photo
I used exact term 'application launcher' in panel widget menu.
Created attachment 149192 [details]
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Logic errors. Again, I reported this when I was using KDE and want to switch back, and still use KDE software (family PC is fast enough for KDE, and I use KDE programs, just not KDE itself.)
You can see the menu is scrolled down past the end of everything starting with 'a' to standard preinstalled KDE stuff, but this style menu used to open another box to the right, or continue indefinitely, until your list was done, instead of forcing scroll (slower.) Got it, thanks. This is the intentional design. "Cascading" means that it's capable of opening sub-menus, not that each sub-menu extends horizontally rather than scrolling if its contents are taller than the screen height. So what you're seeing is the way it was designed. Created attachment 150349 [details]
other option
There was another option (shown in attachment) since Windows 9n (95, 98) & ME and a while after. I recall the shown menu style being an option for the start menu (so should be one for kicker, maybe kickoff, etc.) Again, this is the intended design, sorry. |