SUMMARY The "New!" indicator is still visible after launching a newly installed app from search. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install an app in order to have a desktop entry with the new indicator in kickoff. 2. Launch the app using the build it search bar in kickoff. OBSERVED RESULT The "New!" indicator is still visible. EXPECTED RESULT The indicator should go out since I already launched the app SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 Kernel Version: 6.14.7-arch2-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
It is also worth mentioning that the indicator also still here if opened from the "Favorite" section of kickoff if the app is pinned.
Can reproduce.
> 2. Launch the app using the build it search bar in kickoff. That’s not the point of this feature. The point is that it teaches you where to find the app on the menu.
But I’ll see if can check the activity scoring stuff to track app launches throughout the system (the same mechanism p-b-i reminder detects your browser being launched)
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5527
In case you have 2 kickoff menus (e. g. you have 2 panels and both has 1), when you open the newly installed app from one of them, the other will still have the new badge.
Git commit 6c9ec918ffa4d844106032f97261b860ad74646c by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 04/06/2025 at 11:16. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: Use KActivityManager to track app launches Ensures that we also catch app launches outside the application model, be it through KRunner, desktop shortcut, or favorites list. Co-authored-by: Oliver Beard <olib141@outlook.com> M +0 -10 applets/kicker/appsmodel.cpp M +94 -17 applets/kicker/rootmodel.cpp M +9 -0 applets/kicker/rootmodel.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/6c9ec918ffa4d844106032f97261b860ad74646c
Git commit aaf7a8755abb15628009638f138b4adc4711b954 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 04/06/2025 at 15:53. Pushed by broulik into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. applets/kicker: Use KActivityManager to track app launches Ensures that we also catch app launches outside the application model, be it through KRunner, desktop shortcut, or favorites list. Co-authored-by: Oliver Beard <olib141@outlook.com> (cherry picked from commit 6c9ec918ffa4d844106032f97261b860ad74646c) Co-authored-by: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de> M +0 -10 applets/kicker/appsmodel.cpp M +94 -17 applets/kicker/rootmodel.cpp M +9 -0 applets/kicker/rootmodel.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/aaf7a8755abb15628009638f138b4adc4711b954