Created attachment 184614 [details] Highlights touch vertically SUMMARY As the attached screenshot shows, there's no vertical margin between adjacent highlights. This is especially visible when having "Favorites" selected while hovering over "All applications". 1. Select "Favorites" 2. Hover over "All applications" OBSERVED RESULT Both highlights touch each other EXPECTED RESULT A 1px or 2px gap between highlights SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-1005G1 CPU @ 1.20GHz Memory: 12 GiB of RAM (11.4 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP 246 G7 Notebook PC
*** Bug 509660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is essentially the inverse of Bug 487653. Here we don't have the issue, but at the cost of touching highlight for adjacent items. I'm not sure how possible it is to generically fix both issues until we've got Union styling everything.
Actually, it looks like I can put in a local workaround for Kickoff, since list views in Plasma are still largely hand-made rather than standardized the way they are in QML-based apps and System Settings pages.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3259
Git commit 57885ba4ec524bdc1c1326228f27c1c3a3561bba by Marco Martin, on behalf of Nate Graham. Committed on 22/10/2025 at 08:12. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/kickoff: add spacing between non-switch-on-hover category items Otherwise, their highlight effects touch, and it looks bad. To avoid blowing up the layout as a result of this change, slightly decrease the height of these category list items too, which also reduces some code complexity. FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +1 -0 applets/kickoff/ApplicationsPage.qml M +0 -9 applets/kickoff/KickoffListDelegate.qml M +5 -0 applets/kickoff/KickoffListView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/57885ba4ec524bdc1c1326228f27c1c3a3561bba
I'm afraid I have to reopen the issue. It seems the category items are fixed, but not the placed panel. Take a look at the screenshot in the next post
Created attachment 186347 [details] Items on the places panel still touch Items on the places panel still touch
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3269
Git commit c36e873ca8cfbc19f0ed25307726bb0cca800ae2 by Nate Graham. Committed on 10/11/2025 at 23:59. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/kickoff: add separation between Places page list items too Missed in 57885ba4ec524bdc1c1326228f27c1c3a3561bba FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +1 -1 applets/kickoff/ApplicationsPage.qml M +2 -2 applets/kickoff/KickoffListView.qml M +1 -0 applets/kickoff/PlacesPage.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/c36e873ca8cfbc19f0ed25307726bb0cca800ae2