When selecting an application in the new application launcher, the launcher uses a right swipe animation before closing and opening the selected application. Given that the slide animation conveys navigation within the menu, there should not be any sliding animation at a final action, clicking to open a new application. The reason is because it is a final action, there is no more navigation after this action. This will make the action more clear to the user.
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https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/489
Git commit 85f801db441e51c0a5510d953ada0bdb179a5f2b by Marco Martin. Committed on 24/05/2021 at 13:19. Pushed by mart into branch 'master'. Don't slide when launching an app the slide animation makes sense only when opening a category, when launching an app, don't play the anim M +3 -1 applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffListView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/85f801db441e51c0a5510d953ada0bdb179a5f2b
Git commit 0d899be4f5d116874789948113f18c93544c2f9d by Marco Martin. Committed on 24/05/2021 at 13:21. Pushed by mart into branch 'Plasma/5.22'. Don't slide when launching an app the slide animation makes sense only when opening a category, when launching an app, don't play the anim M +3 -1 applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffListView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/0d899be4f5d116874789948113f18c93544c2f9d
*** Bug 418319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***