Bug 353407 - Where is the shelf for the panel in Plasma 5?
Summary: Where is the shelf for the panel in Plasma 5?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Panel (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3.2
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2015-10-01 13:09 UTC by Janet
Modified: 2024-02-20 01:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Shelf for panel in KDE SC 4 (55.45 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-10-01 15:09 UTC, Janet
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Description Janet 2015-10-01 13:09:41 UTC
There doesn't seem to be a shelf for the panel anymore? Help, how do I group my entries in the panel now? Is there another way I don't see? Even the classic workaround to copy application.desktop files into some folder and to add that folder to the panel does not work anymore because the folder is put into the panel as dolphin link and not as list! Can you please re-add either the folderlist or the shelf?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-10-01 13:16:53 UTC
can you include a screenshot of what you mean by "shelf"
Comment 2 Janet 2015-10-01 15:09:00 UTC
Created attachment 94800 [details]
Shelf for panel in KDE SC 4

Screenshot from KDE SC 4 with 2 shelfs in the panel. There doesn't seem to be a way in Plasma 5 to get a vertical extra menu/list of applications into the panel anymore as it was possible in KDE4.
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2015-10-01 15:46:02 UTC
thanks
Comment 4 David Edmundson 2015-10-05 15:43:45 UTC
This effect can be recreated with the folder view plasmoid in a panel :
https://www.eikehein.com/kde/blog/fvlist/fvlist01.png

You can make it open any folder including one filled with launchers to applications

or the quicklaunch applet which is coming in Plamsa 5.5:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125283/
Comment 5 Janet 2015-10-12 18:23:42 UTC
No, sorry, it is not resolved by using the folder view widget in the panel. The folderview widget only is a rough workaround. Although it is possible to have a list of entries since 5.4 it is not possible to show menu entries withouh the .desktop extension and it does not show the description and the name like the shelf, only the file name. And it cannot use a part of the menu like the shelf. The new quicklaunch widget seems to be promising as it offers a popup. But afaik it also cannot use part of the menu and doesn't show application name plus description?
Comment 6 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2019-09-28 05:46:13 UTC
Hello, as the reporter said, this is not resolved as fixed.
I'd really like them too.
For me, they are so handy to setup to the left side of the screen, to set an icon and add a row of apps I use most in a bunch of shelves (per categories).
Why the shelves were dropped?
Maybe the closest thing are the quick launchers, but they don't spare us of labels when the widget is attached to a panel, and also have no display flexibility as they start to arrange the items one under another with labels to the right in the expandable popup area.