In the provided screenshot URL you'll see that the emphasis is given to the application description instead of the application name. This sounds very counter-intuitive to me to begin with - and even if most Debian packages try to keep a small description which is not too weird to look at ("File Manager", "Audio Player") while the actual application name is harder to see below, some externally-installed menu items look a lot weirder. It may sound like a nitpick but any UI designer will agree that unless the descriptions are spot-on, this would make the Application Launcher harder to use both for new and established users. What if there are two "Audio Player" installed? What if an externally-installed game comes with the description "A game"? Since the descriptions for any and all system packages is something KDE won't and cannot control I think it is better to swap the two fields in the UI - give emphasis to the actual package name and have the description accompany it below (and if necessary give more screen space to the description as well). Alternatively, allow for users to select (via right-click or via system settings) which field they want to see above and which to see below. I believe KDE had this option a while ago but I couldn't find it just now - if it's there it doesn't show up using the search feature or relevant categories in ksystem. Anyway, I suggest that the default be reconsidered. Reproducible: Always I imagine this has been discussed before but I couldn't find a relevant bug request here and don't have time to dig over mailing list archives and so on. If the bug tracker isn't the proper place to report this to, I ask that someone see this through to the proper channels. Thank you! Since I'm not sure which package provides the Application Launcher, 5.6.0 was just an estimate based on plasma-desktop and plasma-workspace versions.
This is intentional. There's an option "Sort applications by name" which does exactly what you described.
Created attachment 101069 [details] attachment-20399-0.html Searching for "sort" on the System Settings application gives me no result for this option. Can you refer it to me and possibly a link with the rationale behind the decision of having the emphasis on application description as the default? On 13 September 2016 at 04:48, Kai Uwe Broulik via KDE Bugzilla < bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368714 > > Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Resolution|--- |WONTFIX > Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED > CC| |kde@privat.broulik.de > > --- Comment #1 from Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> --- > This is intentional. There's an option "Sort applications by name" which > does > exactly what you described. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. >