Created attachment 177934 [details] Expected behaviour shown in Kubuntu 24.04 on Plasma 5.27 *** If you're not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org If you're reporting a crash, attach a backtrace with debug symbols; see https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports Please remove this comment after reading and before submitting - thanks! *** SUMMARY In Plasma 5.27 when you centered Application Launcher, aka Kickoff on the panel using panel spacers, the Kickoff menu would always open centered on the panel, attached to it, similarly to how it does in Windows 11, or Cinnamenu in Cinnamon, as a KDE example there's Ditto Menu and Andromeda Launcher. This gave the menu a coherent look and ensured, that no matter how many applications are on the panel, the menu would open in the same place. However, since Plasma 6 came out, this behaviour is different. Kickoff menu tries to always center on the Application Launcher button, or if it's not possible, it will align its left side to the end of the panel (or screen edge). Because of that, the position of the menu changes depending on how many applications are opened and present on the panel, which makes using it much less intuitive, since you always have to look for the menu alongside lower edge (which is especially annoying with ultrawide monitor). In my humble opinion, there should be an option in the Launcher settings to allign to left, right or center of the panel, or to center on the button, if this is better for someone. I have found this bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477957, however the fix that resulted in that only aligns the menu to the left whereas I'd like it to, as stated before, and suggested in the mentioned bug report, to center on the panel/screen. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add panel spacers to the left of the Application Launcher and to the right of Tasks Widget, so that Application Launcher and Tasks are centered on the panel 2. Launch Kickoff menu 3. Observe that the menu centers on the button, not on the panel OBSERVED RESULT Kickoff menu opens centered on the Application Launcher button EXPECTED RESULT Kickoff menu opens centered on the center of the panel (attachment in Kubuntu on Plasma 5.27) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor Memory: 30.9 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: X670 GAMING X AX ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is fixed for me in Plasma 6.3.0.
Created attachment 178602 [details] Issue still persisting on Plasma 6.3.0 As can be seen - this issue is still present on Plasma 6.3.0
In that case it's also expected: if it centered on the screen, it would no longer appear above the button on the panel. If you un-pin or close some apps, you'll see that it becomes centered as you want.
Created attachment 178611 [details] Sadly this is not the case either Thank you for your help and assistance. As can be seen - now I have only 5 icons on my taskbar. If the menu centered on the screen, it would still be above the button. However, the menu still centers on the button, not the screen/panel. Even if the menu is expanded horizontally, it still always center on the button. In my opinion, it would be beneficial for end user to have a toggle/option to choose if it should center on the button or the screen (similarly to how Andromeda launcher does it)
Hmm, that does seem like a bug based on my understanding of the current implementation. Re-opening!
Do I understand correctly, that under current implementation, if: 1. The menu is wide enough, or 2. There aren't enough icons on the panel So that opened menu *could* be both centered and above menu button (fully? partially?) then it should be centered? That seems a bit inconsistent from my point of view. Supposedly I have 5 icons pinned + menu button, and the menu is only wide enough to facilitate 6 icons. Any additional application opened would move the menu button to the left of the panel, which means the menu would no longer be above it. So the menu gets "kicked out" and now centers above the button, completly throwing off the muscle memory, since it opens in completly different place than usual. **A** solution to that is to have the menu be much wider than anticipated number of icons, but in my case that would mean the menu would have to take almost half of the screen width (and I have an ultra-wide monitor, on 16:9 laptop it's almost 3/4 of the screen width). Not very good solution, but it is A solution (of course if it works, which in this case doesn't, at least on both my systems). So if I understand correctly - in current implementation there's no way to FORCE Kickoff to ALWAYS open centered on screen, no matter if it would be above button or not? I got into discussion on Fosstodon with Niccolò Venerandi, who claimed there is an easy-ish way to force that in QML, but sadly the conversation didn't go anywhere from that.
Hello there nate@kde.org. Any updates on this?
If there was, you'd see it in a comment here.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/libplasma/-/merge_requests/1285