SUMMARY In the Applications page, currently two buttons appear: "quit application" and "configure columns". To access further functionality, one has to click on the three-dot menu, which offers "show details sidebar" and "edit page". The current setup, however, is not a good default: a user is expected to change the columns quite rarely (if ever!), whereas it is reasonable to assume that they will want to show or hide the "details" pane a lot more frequently. It would therefore be ideal to swap the two buttons, if anything for consistency: at the moment we have a button that performs an action related to the applications and one that changes how System Monitor behaves in both the toolbar and the menu; lumping them together (both buttons that perform actions related to the applications in the toolbar and both buttons related to System Monitor in the menu) would make more logical sense. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open System Monitor 2. Open the Applications page OBSERVED RESULT System Monitor's buttons are not arranged according to frequency of use, so that a frequently-used button is hidden and a rarely-used one is shown. EXPECTED RESULT System Monitor's buttons are arranged in a way that makes the most-used ones visible and puts the less-used ones in the menu. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/merge_requests/408
Git commit b046041b3e8eccea35bf7eee187da51ffe6dd6c1 by Arjen Hiemstra. Committed on 22/01/2026 at 10:02. Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'master'. faces/applications: Show Show Details action instead of Configure Columns Show Details is a more often used action, so display that rather than Configure Columns. M +1 -1 src/faces/applicationstable/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/commit/b046041b3e8eccea35bf7eee187da51ffe6dd6c1
Git commit fa3a9c6c464fd2979b0cf8a762e15548ef9b7369 by Arjen Hiemstra. Committed on 22/01/2026 at 10:17. Pushed by ahiemstra into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. faces/applications: Show Show Details action instead of Configure Columns Show Details is a more often used action, so display that rather than Configure Columns. M +1 -1 src/faces/applicationstable/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/commit/fa3a9c6c464fd2979b0cf8a762e15548ef9b7369