Bug 502839 - Keep Installed and Updates in side-bar with narrow windows (or remove Home and Search)
Summary: Keep Installed and Updates in side-bar with narrow windows (or remove Home an...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: discover (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-04-15 14:07 UTC by John Veness
Modified: 2025-05-08 20:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 6.4.0
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Description John Veness 2025-04-15 14:07:24 UTC
SUMMARY
When the Discover window is narrow enough, the sidebar disappears, to be replaced with a hamburger menu and a bottom icon bar.

When full width, the topmost sidebar entries are:

- Search box
- Home
- Installed
- Updates
- Settings
- About

When narrow width, the topmost hamburger menu entries are:

- Home
- Search
- Settings
- About

and the bottom bar has:

- Home
- Search
- Installed
- Updates

I suggest that with narrow windows, either Installed and Updates should remain in the hamburger menu (as well as in the bottom bar), or that Home and Search should be removed from the hamburger menu so they are only in the bottom bar. Or to put it another way, it seems odd that Home and Search are given special treatment to appear in both places at once, while Installed and Updates are not.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Discover
2. Maximise the window
3. Look at the sidebar entries
4. Make the window width narrow
5. Look at the bottom toolbar entries and the entries in the hamburger menu

OBSERVED RESULT
Notice that Home and Search appear in both places, but Installed and Updates are only available from the bottom bar.

EXPECTED RESULT
Installed and Updates still available in hamburger menu.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250410
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For context, I made the window narrow, noticed that the sidebar had disappeared, and instinctively clicked on the hamburger button to look for Updates (which is what I was attempting to do at the time). Because it wasn't in the hamburger menu I thought it was a bug, especially as at first glance all the other entries were there (I didn't immediately notice that Installed also wasn't in the hamburger menu, probably because I never go into that section)! It took a few seconds to realise Updates had been moved to the bottom bar. It just seemed odd to not find Updates in the hamburger menu when Home and Search were still there. Thanks for reading all this!
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-04-16 16:55:39 UTC
Removing Home and Search from the sidebar makes sense to me, since they're already visible on the bottom tab switcher.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-05-08 20:42:53 UTC
Git commit d5b97bdc7f58d19a4dd3380b9bc5711b9e6dc52c by Nate Graham.
Committed on 08/05/2025 at 20:40.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Remove Home and Search actions from drawer in narrow mode

They're already visible on the bottom tab bar, making them redundant in
the drawer.
FIXED-IN: 6.4.0

M  +1    -3    discover/qml/DiscoverDrawer.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/commit/d5b97bdc7f58d19a4dd3380b9bc5711b9e6dc52c
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-05-08 20:47:53 UTC
*** Bug 503941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***