SUMMARY There's currently only the way to filter installed applets by category or name. It would be helpful if they could be sorted by installation date. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.63.0 Qt Version: 5.13.1
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4634
I'm closing this as intentional because there's https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4634 implementing something very similar -- that is, automatically sorting at the top all newly installed widgets. I believe that feature addresses the underlying issue described here, and I thus don't think it's worth it to introduce a new sorting button just for installation date.
Git commit 6f0916b077919d1ef27f34bb54d9d223cd454798 by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 29/08/2024 at 14:52. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Always display newly installed widgets on top and add newly installed filter Related: bug 412764 M +7 -0 components/shellprivate/kcategorizeditemsviewmodels.cpp M +36 -0 components/shellprivate/plasmaappletitemmodel.cpp M +3 -1 components/shellprivate/plasmaappletitemmodel_p.h M +4 -0 components/shellprivate/widgetexplorer.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/6f0916b077919d1ef27f34bb54d9d223cd454798