Created attachment 170086 [details] Taskbar in Plasma 6, mixing unstarted and started programs horizontally Pinned programs in Plasma 6 taskbar are behaving like in dock mode After upgrading to Plasma 6, my pinned programs in my taskbar are behaving mind-boggling wrong: In Plasma 5, pinned programs were on the left side until you opened then, then they would wander to the right side, with their window titles, until closed. Now, with Plasma 6, the task bar entries are appearing right at the position the pinned icon was, making the taskbar an convoluted mess. Regular task entries with window titles sit next beneath several icon-only, unstarted programs. It’s how the Windows 7+ dock works, but that’s not what I’m expecting of a regular taskbar. See my screenshot for illustration. I could create classical starter icons instead of pinned programs, but then it wouldn’t work to save screen estate in the panel, the icon would always be on the left and taking up much needed space for titles in the taskbar. EXPECTED RESULT Started programs off pinned starters should move to the right, like it was with Plasma 5. The taskbar shouldn’t be a mix of task entries and unstarted programs. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: Arch KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 Qt Version: 6.7.1
Found out that the option "Do not sort" in the taskbar settings restores the old behavior from Plasma 5: Taskbar entries started off pinned icons wander to the right. But now I cannot sort them manually anymore. In Plasma 5, my settings were "Sort: Manually", "Keep launchers separate: on". But on Plasma 6, "Keep launchers separate: on" now makes them fixed like manual starter icons, they don’t move at all anymore when started. This way, when I start Konsole off its pinned icon, a separate taskbar entry appears on the right but the pinned icon on the left doesn’t disappear while Konsole is running. This isn’t the expected behavior.
in 6.1 the "keep launcher separate" option is back
(In reply to Marco Martin from comment #2) > in 6.1 the "keep launcher separate" option is back Okay, nice! Hope it’s the same behavior like on Plasma 5.
(In reply to Maximilian Böhm from comment #3) > (In reply to Marco Martin from comment #2) > > in 6.1 the "keep launcher separate" option is back > > Okay, nice! Hope it’s the same behavior like on Plasma 5. Wait, what do you mean exactly by that? Because I still have "keep launcher separate" in Plasma 6.0. But it’s like explained above: When I enable "Sort: Manually" + "Keep launchers separate: on" I get always separate launchers: So to say, I open Firefox via its pinned icon, the pinned icon stays on the left side but now I also get a task entry on the right. When I deselect "Keep launchers separate", there are no more double entries, so a pinned icon becomes a task entry when started. BUT this way, the task entry opens exactly at the position of the pinned icon, not in the regular task bar. That’s what this bug was about, see my screenshot. My current remedy is to use "Do not sort", which restores the Plasma 5 behavior, but with this option, I cannot sort my task entries manually.