If I am changing my layout which requires removing and re-adding App Dash which removes and resets App Dash. It would be very useful if favorites aren't lost. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a few favorites to you AppDash 2. Remove AppDash 3. Re-add AppDash Actual Results: Favorite apps are lost when AppDash is removed. Expected Results: Favorite apps should be persistent.
Yup. This is not really ideal. Say you have 2 panels (1 / monitor) each with a kickoffdash. Then you might (!!) want to have the favourites linked / synced between. However think again - bzzzt - no!! So basically I've got to manually hack about in the configuration files to fix this issue. 1) Alter: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/config/main.xml to "fix" / change the default global favourites. and / or 2) Add further cruft to my BASH script to fix (which runs pre-startup): ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc which already "fixes" another Plasma 5 bug where panels randomly move when you change screen configuration... Add a hack to sync my favourites between the panels (each with a separate kickoffdash).
It is real easy to hit this bug when testing out different application launcher styles. If you have created any favorites, you will lose them after the switch to another launcher, and you won't get them back when returning to your previous launcher style.
This is not a bug.
There may be like 'Remember/Persistent widgets settings' checkbox somewhere in the 'Look And Feel' window or something like that with ability to save widgets setting (favorites, pinned apps...) and spread/share them across all widgets.
It'll get addressed in 5.11 or 5.12 when favorites get stored in the activities db instead and shared among widgets.
since some plasma releases ago, favorite apps list is preserved when the user toggles between the apps menus available.