Bug 501097

Summary: the contents of a grouped task is not sorted alphabetically
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: frank roell <forum.1>
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgetsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: git-stable-Plasma/5.27   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: the contents of a grouped task is not sorted alphabetically
kde plasma, task manager settings for reproducing

Description frank roell 2025-03-05 12:49:28 UTC
Created attachment 179140 [details]
the contents of a grouped task is not sorted alphabetically

SUMMARY

the contents of a grouped task is not sorted alphabetically

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  set task manager settings:

  a) group: by programm name
  b) clicking grouped task: show testual list
  c) combine into single button: yes
  d) group only when the Task Manager is full
  e) sort: Alphabetically

2.  in a konsole start some terminals with variant titles, e.g.:

   xterm -T "xterm #3" &
   xterm -T "xterm #1" &
   xterm -T "xterm #2" &

OBSERVED RESULT

the buttons in the taskbar are sorted as specified in e). OK.

the buttons _inside_ the grouped-task-button "XTerm" are unsorted or sorted according to the startup order (see attached picture).

EXPECTED RESULT

the buttons _inside_ the grouped-task-button "XTerm" are should be sorted alphabetically.

maybe the task-manager-setiings should provide an addtional configuration attribute is "sort entries of grouped task buttons by":

  - start sequence
  - alphabetically

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.0-31-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: offscreen
Processors: 4 × Intel® Xeon® E-2388G CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Comment 1 frank roell 2025-03-05 12:54:35 UTC
Created attachment 179141 [details]
kde plasma, task manager settings for reproducing
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-03-05 17:37:06 UTC
Thank you for your bug report!

Debian advises users to not submit bugs upstream (https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting), as this version of the KDE software is out of support from KDE, and so it's possible that the bug exists only in Debian at this point.

Could you report the bug to Debian using the report bug utility (https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/reportbug)? If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug upstream.

Thanks for understanding!