Bug 493595 - Quicklaunch fixes and features
Summary: Quicklaunch fixes and features
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kdeplasma-addons
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: Quicklaunch (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git-stable-Plasma/6.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2024-09-24 17:27 UTC by Mihai Sorin Dobrescu
Modified: 2025-05-28 17:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Launchers management (191.89 KB, image/png)
2024-09-24 17:27 UTC, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu
Details
Tiled Quicklaunch (204.86 KB, image/png)
2024-09-24 17:33 UTC, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu
Details

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Description Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2024-09-24 17:27:25 UTC
Created attachment 174036 [details]
Launchers management

SUMMARY

I think Quicklaunch needs few more features and fixes.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a panel to a side of the desktop.
2. Add Quicklauncher components to it.
3. Add launchers to the Quicklauncher components.

OBSERVED RESULT

The management of launchers on the Quicklaunchers is problematic.
On one hand, every component has displayed document-like icons around it, on the container panel until the system reboot. Those icons had various sizes.

EXPECTED RESULT

Those document-like icons should not appear at all.
Launchers are expected to be added by drag and drop from the Plasma menu or by a dedicated context menu on the Quicklauncher.

The following features are of interest in order to make it more user-friendly too:
- add an option to display icons only
- add an option to display the icons horizontally
- add an option to adapt its size to the contained launchers when displayed horizontally too
- add an option to drag and drop launchers
- add an option to assign an icon to the Quicklaunchers similarly to the Folder View component
- add an option to expand the Quicklaunchers on mouse hover

Look at the Plasma 5 Tiled Quicklauncher in order to assess those features (that component is great, maybe too complex, so not all its features are described here, but it is good for reference).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: MocaccinoOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.6.51-mocaccino (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 61.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2024-09-24 17:33:36 UTC
Created attachment 174037 [details]
Tiled Quicklaunch
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-09-25 20:54:48 UTC
Thanks for the Bugzilla ticket! Unfortunately it requests multiple distinct features and reports multiple bugs which will make it not actionable. Please open one bug report per requested feature or reported bug; thanks!

See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting#Multiple_issues_in_a_single_Bugzilla_ticket for more explanation.
Comment 3 Mihai Sorin Dobrescu 2024-10-01 18:28:22 UTC
Hi, for me, those features together, as a whole, makes it interesting and usable.
I can split it in items, sure, but each taken separately does not solve the problem.