The setting has four options: Name only Description only Name (Description) Description (Name) All but the default are terribly broken in my opinion: 1) Description only often shows nonsensical strings, also long strings that get elided even with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362986 fixed 2) Name (Description) and Description (Name) only work before one types anything, then "Name only" starts applying. Even in default setting, they are just ugly, because they are long and elided (without ellipsis, so it is not apparent they are elided) Proposed solution: get rid of this option and always show a tooltip when hovering over the icons showing "Name (Description)" It would be simpler, would reduce code complexity probably, get rid of bugs and not meaningful functionality would be lost. I doubt anybody is using those settings.
Created attachment 152477 [details] Some nonsensicla description The decsription are elided and sometimes do not make sense ("measure object on" or "a free graphical user"). Favourites do not respect this settings either.
Created attachment 152478 [details] elided description This shows the description in a parenthesis, but is elided.
Created attachment 152479 [details] Search removes description No I started to search and the description was removed.
I would tend to agree. We don't have these settings for Kickoff, having removed them years ago. People haven't complained. If this is something you'd like to work on, please do feel free!
If I understood correctly, we should leave two options for configuration: Name Only Description Only ToolTip should be Description when Name Only configured. ToolTip should be Name Only when Description Only configured. Configuration should be respected also when displaying search results. @tomashnyk@gmail.com @Nate Graham I want to work on this so please let me know if this is desired result.
My preffered solution as I suggested. above would be to remove this option entirely. Show name only be default and when you hower over the icon, sho desxription as a tool tip (possibly something like Name — Description or Name (Description). Only showing description does not seem to make much sense, where would it make sense? Feel free to work on it, I just reported it.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4898
Git commit c5b449d8c2730b85fe6abc6050217d74ba390036 by Niccolò Venerandi, on behalf of Tomislav Pap. Committed on 21/10/2025 at 08:08. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'plasma-workspace-ApplicationDashboardShowAppsAsConfigRestyling'. ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling Important: This MR is connected to Previously, there was configuration option which enabled user to chose the way ApplicationDashboard displays application's name. Other option than AppName Only looked clutered and was harder to read Application text. This configuration section was removed and now application dashboard shows App Names together with description of the application as toolTip. Before if you have chosen AppName Only, description toolTip was not visible. For some apps, such as Konqueror, Info Center description was faulty extracted(null/empty string) in Recent Apps section which is also fixed with this MR. The reason for that issue was that description for Recent Apps(recentusagemodel.cpp) was extracted as comment, and didn't have backup option to genericName as in appEntry.cpp -> init() function. M +1 -0 applets/kicker/appentry.cpp M +7 -1 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/c5b449d8c2730b85fe6abc6050217d74ba390036
Git commit 89ac8c45b21d88a3a5f5061491730ae004a3fd6e by Niccolò Venerandi, on behalf of Tomislav Pap. Committed on 21/10/2025 at 08:22. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling # ApplicationDashboard 'Show Apps As' Config Restyling ### Reason for the change **Important**: This MR is connected to [https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2623](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2623) Previously, there was configuration option which enabled user to chose the way ApplicationDashboard displays application's name. Other option than AppName Only looked clutered and was harder to read Application text. - This configuration section was removed and now application dashboard shows App Names together with description of the application as toolTip. Before if you have chosen AppName Only, description toolTip was not visible. - For some apps, such as Konqueror, Info Center description was faulty extracted(null/empty string) in Recent Apps section which is also fixed with this MR. The reason for that issue was that description for Recent Apps(recentusagemodel.cpp) was extracted as comment, and didn't have backup option to genericName as in appEntry.cpp -> init() function. M +1 -0 applets/kicker/appentry.cpp M +7 -1 applets/kicker/recentusagemodel.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/89ac8c45b21d88a3a5f5061491730ae004a3fd6e