SUMMARY Add an option to keep in place pinned lauchers after the start of the application STEPS TO REPRODUCE In task manager add a setting like "Keep pinned launchers in place" (or something like that) EXPECTED RESULT When you launch an app from the "pinned launcher" the launcher should remain visible, the app opens at the right extreme of the task manager.
Food for thought: if this is what you want, don't pin any apps to the Task Manager in the first place: just add your launchers as panel launcher icons. You can do this via the "Add to Panel (Widget)" context menu item when right-clicking on apps in Kickoff or Kicker. Would that work for you?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Food for thought: if this is what you want, don't pin any apps to the Task > Manager in the first place: just add your launchers as panel launcher icons. > You can do this via the "Add to Panel (Widget)" context menu item when > right-clicking on apps in Kickoff or Kicker. > > Would that work for you? Yes, this is the workaround that I use, but it's not the same. In facts, pinned apps have a rich right-click menu, while icon-launchers haven't. For example, if I keep Dolphin pinned I can open Image folder directly. Or, with LO writer pinned, I can open a recent file directly from the righ-click menu. It's very useful and convenient. (side note: right click menu would be a lot more visual pleasant and uniform with plasmashell if it was QML instead of Qt widgets)
Fair enough!
*** Bug 467161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't know why anyone would want the current behavior. It seems pointless. From time-to-time most people want multiple instances of an application. Can anyone tell me the benefit of removing the launchers from the panel when their application is launched? Hot keys are a workaround, but sometimes a click is more convenient, I would argue that the DEFAULT behavior would be to keep the launchers in place.
Possible because the behavior proposed in this feature request results in a UI that almost entirely duplicates simply adding app launcher icons to the left of the Task Manager widget. I suspect most people who want this UI end up simply doing that.
Su Plasma 6 mi pare che il comportamento sia quello desiderato.
(In reply to Guido from comment #7) Sorry i wrote in Italian... On Plasma 6 it seems to me that the behavior is as desired.