I noticed this when I tried out an alternative application launcher and different clocks via the "Alternatives..." menu: After switching back to the original one, all custom widget settings were reset to default. I can imagine that this is due to the fact that new widgets are added with default settings and "switching back" is just like adding a new widget.
The settings are discarded when applets are switched. It could be worth trying out to just dump the old settings into the new plasmoid, I doubt it'll break much. The only setting that is currently migrated is the shortcut (so you can press Alt+F1 even if you replaced the default launcher).
*** Bug 368915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 368528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug somehow "got bigger", i used to have it only for alternate task managers, as i reported here bug 368528. Now i get it for switching launchers. Even worse, kicker does not remember my favorites after logging out. Neon unstable. Frameworks 5.30.0 QT 5.7.0 Plasma 5.8.90
Plasma 5.11.3 and Frameworks 5.40.0 here. In my setup the launcher is keeping the favourites when selecting an alternative widget, but the task manager loses the pinned icons when changing from task manager to icon only and reverse.
*** Bug 390848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 430084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 431139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a pretty bad usability issue: given the icons only mode and icons-with-labels mode are implemented as separate plasmoids, enabling or disabling labels right now means losing pinned apps. Perhaps this might be difficult to solve for all plasmoids with alternatives (especially for user-made plasmoids), but Plasma's own plasmoids should absolutely share config. At the very least, it should be possible to enable or disable labels in the task manager plasmoid without losing pinned apps.
Yeah, agreed.
(In reply to mail from comment #9) > At the very least, it should be possible to enable > or disable labels in the task manager plasmoid without losing pinned apps. Not only pinned apps, even the order of favorite apps is reset.
Not sure if it is just related or the same bug: Switching global themes make you lose your config. There's more: you might break the default config as well: -Switch to a theme without the default launcher on the 'meta' key -Switch back to default theme Your meta shortcut is now broken, it doesn't open the launcher anymore, even if you select the option to reset to defaults in the GUI. I could even be ok with losing your customizations when you switch to another global theme, but resetting everything to default should give you back the original behaviour
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*** Bug 455088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1864
Git commit b9a3005f39a5c2f0336b7f687abe1e86d595a40d by Fushan Wen. Committed on 23/06/2022 at 10:57. Pushed by fusionfuture into branch 'master'. Restore old applet configuration after switching to alternative In task manager, switching between icon task manager and text task manager loses the old settings, which is inconvenient. This copies the old configuration to the new applet to fix that behavior. FIXED-IN: 5.26 M +18 -14 shell/alternativeshelper.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/b9a3005f39a5c2f0336b7f687abe1e86d595a40d
*** Bug 456314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The modified order of favorite apps is not preserved. Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 Kernel Version: 5.18.12-2-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Not related. Please open a new bug.
Also no need to open a new bug report; that specific issue is Bug 456412.