Bug 481922

Summary:	The Quick Launch icons on the taskbar cannot be freely rearranged
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Gravarty <gravarty>
Component:	Quicklaunch widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dr_thodt, kbtr.buffer098, kde.cardiac539, kde, kdebugs, kdedev, l.arvanitis, lexlexlex, nate, nicolas.fella, sashaa, sdaniluk, stiliyan, tim
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	regression
Version First Reported In:	5.18.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Gravarty 2024-02-28 10:16:49 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add the "Quick Launch" widget onto the taskbar
2. Add some icons
3. Try to rearrange the icons and notice it doesn't work.

OBSERVED RESULT

Icons stay in a locked state.

EXPECTED RESULT

You can freely rearrange the icons like in KDE 5 and prior

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE 6 on Arch Linux

Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-07-01 18:24:33 UTC

*** Bug 489558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 TraceyC 2024-07-01 18:25:39 UTC

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended, but I can duplicate the behavior. I used to be able to rearrange QuickLaunch icons in Plasma 5, but not in Plasma 6.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-07-10 20:26:12 UTC

It's a regression, not intended.

Comment 4 sashaa 2024-10-27 19:06:13 UTC

can confirm this is still a thing on plasma 6.2.2

Comment 5 kbtr.buffer098 2024-10-31 23:16:30 UTC

It's also very hard to drop icons into the quicklaunch and they always land at the beginning (left side). The only way to have them ordered is to drop them in the desired order. Also, the blue border where the icon would drop, only shows up (and glitches a lot) when no icons are in place. The next icons you drop, there's no way to know if you're dropping them in the quicklaunch widget or directly on to the bar.

Comment 6 kbtr.buffer098 2025-01-15 16:24:21 UTC

Updating Plasma version for this bug, as it's still happening on 6.2.5 both on X11 and Wayland session.

Comment 7 TraceyC 2025-01-15 16:28:32 UTC

I set the version back to what it was. Please don't change this. See the field descriptions here for an explanation
https://bugs.kde.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#alias

Comment 8 kbtr.buffer098 2025-01-15 16:33:40 UTC

(In reply to TraceyC from comment #7)
> I set the version back to what it was. Please don't change this. See the
> field descriptions here for an explanation
> https://bugs.kde.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#alias

Understood! Sorry about that :)

Comment 9 stiliyan 2025-09-04 18:13:43 UTC

Still can't rearrange quicklaunch icons in 6.3.6 on Debian Trixie. A workaround that's a little better than removing launchers and adding them back in is to edit the text file "~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc":

Find the line that starts with "launcherUrls=" and rearrange those urls in the desired order... You may need to log out and then log back in for the changes to take effect.