SUMMARY This option now also makes the sidebar compact, but the sidebar is compact even without this option enabled, and then when you enable the option, the items get compact and the sidebar reverts to the normal size STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Update Plasma to 6.5.90 2. Open Application Launcher settings 3. Enable/Disable "Use compact list item style" OBSERVED RESULT As I said above, with this option disabled, the sidebar gets compact, when enabled, the sidebar reverts to the normal size like it was in 6.5.5 and the items get compact EXPECTED RESULT The sidebar shouldn't be compact if that option is disabled SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.18.5-arch1-1 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.11.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3462
Git commit fa014a0f8fe11f08a4aac47f772cee0e701cd396 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 21/01/2026 at 19:43. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. applets/kickoff: don't use compact padding for category list Kickoff's compact display style increases the top/bottom padding of list entries. This is fine for the actual compact mode, but unnecessary for the sidebar categories; these do not visually change between styles and do not need tohave randomly larger padding just because the main view is in compact display style. Instead, only increase the margins when not a category list item. Also fix some indentation that got lost. FIXED-IN: 6.5.91 M +4 -4 applets/kickoff/KickoffListDelegate.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/fa014a0f8fe11f08a4aac47f772cee0e701cd396
Git commit 428d23a43b31eab1e57596074039294354c4a89a by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 25/01/2026 at 12:34. Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. applets/kickoff: don't use compact padding for category list Kickoff's compact display style increases the top/bottom padding of list entries. This is fine for the actual compact mode, but unnecessary for the sidebar categories; these do not visually change between styles and do not need tohave randomly larger padding just because the main view is in compact display style. Instead, only increase the margins when not a category list item. Also fix some indentation that got lost. FIXED-IN: 6.5.91 (cherry picked from commit fa014a0f8fe11f08a4aac47f772cee0e701cd396) Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net> M +4 -4 applets/kickoff/KickoffListDelegate.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/428d23a43b31eab1e57596074039294354c4a89a