Bug 479331

Summary: A way to navigate from an "app" to its process root
Product: [Applications] plasma-systemmonitor Reporter: Ilya Bizyaev <bizyaev>
Component: generalAssignee: KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: ahiemstra, aspotashev, nate, notmart, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 5.27.10   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ilya Bizyaev 2024-01-02 23:53:11 UTC 
SUMMARY
Apps on the “Overview” and “Applications” pages should have a context menu item (or a double click action, or both) that takes the user to the root process of that app on the “Processes” page.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231226
KDE Plasma Version: 5.91.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.248.0
Qt Version: 6.6.1
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Arjen Hiemstra 2024-02-01 14:47:19 UTC 
The problem with this is that it is not known what the "root process" is. The application filtering happens based on CGroups, which have no concept of "root process". We could try going to the first process in a group but that is often a launcher script or program, not the process which one would really consider "root". Additionally, as soon as you switch to the processes page you lose any context of the application. I think it would be better to have some way of displaying the processes of a group clearly, either by some advanced filtering in the process table or by enhancing the process details in the information pane.
Comment 2 Arjen Hiemstra 2025-09-24 14:02:12 UTC 
I'm going to close this since we now combine duplicate entries into a single "applications" entry, which means it has become completely impossible to determine the "root process" of an application.