Bug 449834 - Apps launched from Favorites page are not added to "Recent apps" section
Summary: Apps launched from Favorites page are not added to "Recent apps" section
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.24.0
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-02-09 09:59 UTC by Philippe ROUBACH
Modified: 2025-12-06 00:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.6.0
Sentry Crash Report:


Attachments
"recent apps" menu (597.49 KB, image/png)
2022-02-09 10:00 UTC, Philippe ROUBACH
Details
kde menu (52.24 KB, image/png)
2022-02-13 19:22 UTC, Philippe ROUBACH
Details
favorites highlighted (64.60 KB, image/png)
2022-02-13 20:56 UTC, Nicolas Fella
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Description Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-09 09:59:32 UTC
SUMMARY



STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. launch for example "writer"
2. quit "writer"
3. go to "recent apps" menu

OBSERVED RESULT

no "writer" item

EXPECTED RESULT

a "writer" item

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

kde gears 21.12.2
Comment 1 Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-09 10:00:42 UTC
Created attachment 146486 [details]
"recent apps" menu
Comment 2 Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-09 12:07:38 UTC
Another phenomenon.

keepassxc is well added but if you click on it then it is not launched !
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-02-11 16:44:58 UTC
Cannot reproduce the issue; works for me.
Comment 4 Nicolas Fella 2022-02-11 17:06:10 UTC
>Another phenomenon.

> keepassxc is well added but if you click on it then it is not launched !

That sounds like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449345
Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2022-02-11 17:14:42 UTC
From my testing it seems like all apps that are part of the "favorites" in kicker/kickoff are not added to the history
Comment 6 Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-11 22:25:14 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #5)
> From my testing it seems like all apps that are part of the "favorites" in
> kicker/kickoff are not added to the history

I don't get any "favorites" menu. I don't know this feature ! Furthermore, I have just discovered it with your comment.
Comment 7 Nicolas Fella 2022-02-13 17:35:08 UTC
"Favorites" is the column of icons on the left
Comment 8 Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-13 19:22:14 UTC
Created attachment 146679 [details]
kde menu

(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #7)
> "Favorites" is the column of icons on the left

I get no "favorites". See the capture.
Comment 9 Nicolas Fella 2022-02-13 20:56:15 UTC
Created attachment 146685 [details]
favorites highlighted

These are the favorites, and Libreoffice Write is one of them
Comment 10 Philippe ROUBACH 2022-02-13 22:15:24 UTC
I confirm there is only a problem with "writer", if this is a problem.
Comment 11 Nate Graham 2024-02-23 22:49:30 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #5)
> From my testing it seems like all apps that are part of the "favorites" in
> kicker/kickoff are not added to the history

Can reproduce that.
Comment 12 Bug Janitor Service 2025-06-11 16:25:26 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5584
Comment 13 cwo 2025-12-02 13:09:35 UTC
Git commit 0b25ddc9ed0a81f2fb9b46c69e5a79b1ab7bee41 by Christoph Wolk.
Committed on 02/12/2025 at 12:03.
Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'.

applets/kicker: show all apps in history

4399573d (in 2015) introduced a filter in the history model to not show
favorites in recently used applications. In principle, this makes sense
(and apparently was requested at the time, though I could not find the
relevant feature requests) - as favorites tend to be often used,
including them makes the recent application history mostly a less easily
accessed copy of the favorites list. But this is opaque to users and
even developers, who often perceive these omissions as a bug, and there
does not seem to be a concise and clear wording that would make the
intentionality of this omission apparent - labeling menus or sections
"Recent Applications excluding Favorites" is terribly awkward.

Instead, be less clever and just do the obvious thing that the labels
History and Recent Applications suggest: show the history of the most
recently launched applications.
Related: bug 435356

M  +1    -5    applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/0b25ddc9ed0a81f2fb9b46c69e5a79b1ab7bee41