| Summary: | "Show application setting as" setting is terribly broken (maybe remove it?) | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | tomashnyk |
| Component: | Application Dashboard widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bad63r, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.2.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/89ac8c45b21d88a3a5f5061491730ae004a3fd6e | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 6.6.0 |
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Some nonsensicla description
elided description Search removes description |
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Description
tomashnyk
2022-09-27 18:26:24 UTC
Created attachment 152477 [details]
Some nonsensicla description
The decsription are elided and sometimes do not make sense ("measure object on" or "a free graphical user"). Favourites do not respect this settings either.
Created attachment 152478 [details]
elided description
This shows the description in a parenthesis, but is elided.
Created attachment 152479 [details]
Search removes description
No I started to search and the description was removed.
I would tend to agree. We don't have these settings for Kickoff, having removed them years ago. People haven't complained. If this is something you'd like to work on, please do feel free! If I understood correctly, we should leave two options for configuration: Name Only Description Only ToolTip should be Description when Name Only configured. ToolTip should be Name Only when Description Only configured. Configuration should be respected also when displaying search results. @tomashnyk@gmail.com @Nate Graham I want to work on this so please let me know if this is desired result. My preffered solution as I suggested. above would be to remove this option entirely. Show name only be default and when you hower over the icon, sho desxription as a tool tip (possibly something like Name — Description or Name (Description). Only showing description does not seem to make much sense, where would it make sense? Feel free to work on it, I just reported it. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4898 Git commit c5b449d8c2730b85fe6abc6050217d74ba390036 by Niccolò Venerandi, on behalf of Tomislav Pap. Committed on 21/10/2025 at 08:08. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'plasma-workspace-ApplicationDashboardShowAppsAsConfigRestyling'. ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling Important: This MR is connected to Previously, there was configuration option which enabled user to chose the way ApplicationDashboard displays application's name. Other option than AppName Only looked clutered and was harder to read Application text. This configuration section was removed and now application dashboard shows App Names together with description of the application as toolTip. Before if you have chosen AppName Only, description toolTip was not visible. For some apps, such as Konqueror, Info Center description was faulty extracted(null/empty string) in Recent Apps section which is also fixed with this MR. The reason for that issue was that description for Recent Apps(recentusagemodel.cpp) was extracted as comment, and didn't have backup option to genericName as in appEntry.cpp -> init() function. M +1 -0 applets/kicker/appentry.cpp M +7 -1 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/c5b449d8c2730b85fe6abc6050217d74ba390036 Git commit 89ac8c45b21d88a3a5f5061491730ae004a3fd6e by Niccolò Venerandi, on behalf of Tomislav Pap. Committed on 21/10/2025 at 08:22. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling # ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling ### Reason for the change **Important**: This MR is connected to [https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2623](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2623) Previously, there was configuration option which enabled user to chose the way ApplicationDashboard displays application's name. Other option than AppName Only looked clutered and was harder to read Application text. - This configuration section was removed and now application dashboard shows App Names together with description of the application as toolTip. Before if you have chosen AppName Only, description toolTip was not visible. - For some apps, such as Konqueror, Info Center description was faulty extracted(null/empty string) in Recent Apps section which is also fixed with this MR. The reason for that issue was that description for Recent Apps(recentusagemodel.cpp) was extracted as comment, and didn't have backup option to genericName as in appEntry.cpp -> init() function. M +1 -0 applets/kicker/appentry.cpp M +7 -1 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/89ac8c45b21d88a3a5f5061491730ae004a3fd6e |