Created attachment 183466 [details] Look of the 'Kicker' search bar after removing all shortcuts on the side bar SUMMARY The search bar in the 'Kicker' applet is cut off by a few pixels when no favorite shortcuts are present. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Switch to the 'Kicker' applet 2. Remove all favorite shortcuts (e.g. power or session-related, Firefox, Discover, ...) 3. Look at the search bar's look OBSERVED RESULT Search bar is cut off by a few pixels. EXPECTED RESULT Search bar remains unchanged after removing favorite shortcuts. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This issue occurs after commit '09ac96239aa4fcbe48478d2b35e77db1baa2ba17' on 'plasma/plasma-desktop' (applets/kicker: fix and simplify representation size).
This bug might be correlanted to a more serious (compared to this report) issue: 507398. Issue presents on a similar environment. Only difference is that it requires the user to log-off first.
I tested this on git-master and can reproduce Note: "Kicker" refers to "Application Menu" in the alternatives
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3122
Git commit 2e1a5b38bc56ce594df08dbdf3d50b4c7b8bdf92 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 04/08/2025 at 11:44. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kicker: correctly position search field The search field in Kicker can be positioned wrong in a few cases, pushing its very edge just outside the popup which looks wrong. This is due to extra inappropriate spacing, resulting from two problems. The first is that for top- and right-aligned panel applets, the state values are incorrectly set and add superfluous spacing that is not present in the left- or bottom-aligned base versions. The second issue is that in case of an empty favorites sidebar, the search field (which is positioned with anchors) adds a smallSpacing that it shouldn't, as the content Row's spacing does not apply between two items if one of them is not visible. Instead, we remove both causes of extra spacing, making the search field fit properly. FIXED-IN: 6.4.4 M +5 -3 applets/kicker/MenuRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/2e1a5b38bc56ce594df08dbdf3d50b4c7b8bdf92
Git commit f6153c0e721f06015a814be35f5bde97c3261ef3 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 04/08/2025 at 12:38. Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.4'. applets/kicker: correctly position search field The search field in Kicker can be positioned wrong in a few cases, pushing its very edge just outside the popup which looks wrong. This is due to extra inappropriate spacing, resulting from two problems. The first is that for top- and right-aligned panel applets, the state values are incorrectly set and add superfluous spacing that is not present in the left- or bottom-aligned base versions. The second issue is that in case of an empty favorites sidebar, the search field (which is positioned with anchors) adds a smallSpacing that it shouldn't, as the content Row's spacing does not apply between two items if one of them is not visible. Instead, we remove both causes of extra spacing, making the search field fit properly. FIXED-IN: 6.4.4 (cherry picked from commit 2e1a5b38bc56ce594df08dbdf3d50b4c7b8bdf92) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +5 -3 applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/MenuRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/f6153c0e721f06015a814be35f5bde97c3261ef3