Bug 498273

Summary: Option to display apps as icons only
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Mihai Sorin Dobrescu <msdobrescu>
Component: Quicklaunch widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: msdobrescu, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.18.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Current appearance with reserved space for the entries
Icon only, but all icons vertical along a vertical panel
Icons only, horizontally arranged

Description Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2025-01-05 09:37:48 UTC 
Created attachment 177120 [details]
Current appearance with reserved space for the entries

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #493595 +++

SUMMARY

The text may redundant or take too much space, usually it reserves a lot of empty space on the panel.
Let's add an option to display icons only to overcome this.

EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: MocaccinoOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.7.3
Kernel Version: 6.6.67-mocaccino (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 61.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS
Comment 1 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2025-01-05 09:41:25 UTC 
Furthermore, let's add an option to display the icons horizontally on each menu, so can avoid expanding just a parallel bar with icons when it is added to a vertical side panel.
Comment 2 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2025-01-05 10:08:11 UTC 
Created attachment 177121 [details]
Icon only, but all icons vertical along a vertical panel
Comment 3 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2025-01-05 10:08:44 UTC 
Created attachment 177122 [details]
Icons only, horizontally arranged
Comment 4 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2025-01-05 10:10:41 UTC 
An useful feature is to add an option to adapt its size to the contained launchers in order to avoid negative space or icons overflow.