kicker, kickoff and the dashboard plasmoid only have an icon view mode BUT the design goal was that every plasmoid has an icon view AND an desktop view (larger size). I think the application launchers could be useful on the desktop as well. So the user want to add kicker to the desktop and search there after applications or files. Reproducible: Always
Kickoff already uses the full repr when you make it big enough. Kicker can have something similar. Dashboard will not.
Ah have it ok Kickoff look nice. I think it would be not that difficult to add a desktop view for Kicker and it would bring more consistency to the plasmoids As fare as I know in kde4 there was something like a kiosk mode where you have an fullscreen application louncher for small devices (netbooks) so why the dashboard will not be available as desktop plasmoid?
See https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2015-December/047275.html
ok then exclude the dashboard cause you have realy good reasons.
Git commit 20ea3f6362e68eedb44ab93569301cee06574333 by Eike Hein. Committed on 10/01/2016 at 17:06. Pushed by hein into branch 'master'. Make Kicker transition into full repr on desktop. M +3 -2 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/MenuRepresentation.qml M +4 -1 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/main.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/20ea3f6362e68eedb44ab93569301cee06574333