Bug 483942

Summary:	'Keep launchers separate' setting should hide open programs in traditional task manager
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Sjoerd <kde>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	eugene.savitsky, john.kde, nate, niccolo, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478851
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	separate launchers separate launchers disabled

Description Sjoerd 2024-03-18 21:34:51 UTC

Created attachment 167433 [details]
separate launchers

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable setting "keep launchers separate" in the task manager (not-icons only) settings
2. Pin some applications to the task manager
3. Open some of the pinned applications

OBSERVED RESULT
The icons of the pinned applications are all to the left of the task manger, so they are separate as intended. But the icons of the pinned applications do not disappear when the application is open. See attachment 'seperate launchers.png'. The pinned launchers of the applications that have open windows are still visible to the left.

EXPECTED RESULT
The icons of the pinned applications should disappear when the application is opened. The pinned application should move into a 'window' instead of a pinned icon. 

This happens when the setting 'keep launchers seperate' is disabled. See attachment 'separate launchers disabled.png'. Firefox is pinned, but because it is open, the launcher icon is hidden. But Dolphin is not open, and the launcher is visible. But now the launchers are in the middle of open windows, and not separate to the left. 

So in my opinion the setting 'keep launchers separate' should behave the same way as when it's disabled, and hide open windows. But it should just keep them separate to the left of the task manager.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSuse Tumbleweed
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Opened a new bug for this as requested by Nate Graham in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478851

Comment 1 Sjoerd 2024-03-18 21:35:15 UTC

Created attachment 167434 [details]
separate launchers disabled

Comment 2 Sjoerd 2024-03-18 21:57:24 UTC

The wierd thing is that I can almost create the original Plasma 5 behaviour sometimes.

When I set sorting to 'Manually' in the Task Manager, and enable the 'Keep launchers separate'. I have all the pinned launchers to the left and they do not disappear (so not as I want/expect/as plasma 5 behaved).

And if I then set sorting to 'Do not sort', I cannot change the 'keep launchers separate' setting, it's greyed out. And nothing really changes, I just cannot sort windows anymore.

But if I then set sorting to 'Manually', and disable 'keep launchers separate', and then change sorting to 'Do not sort' again, and click OK, the behaviour is completely different than before. Now the pinned applications DO disappear when I open them. It's just that I can't sort them anymore.

So even though 'keep launchers separate' is greyed out when sorting is set to 'Do not sort', the behaviour is different if you disable or enable it before you set sorting to 'Do not sort'. This feels like a bug?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-03-18 22:10:40 UTC

Can reproduce. The issue is kinda sorta intentional right now based on what the setting does, but that what it does is pretty incoherent IMO (see discussion in Bug 478851). I'm in favor of making it return to the pre-Plasma-6 behavior where launching an app makes its launcher disappear.

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2024-03-21 11:49:55 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2134

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-03-25 18:47:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482707 ***