Bug 516196 - Search bar misaligned
Summary: Search bar misaligned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.6.0
Platform: CachyOS Linux
: HI minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: regression
: 516198 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-02-18 11:45 UTC by Matthew McInerney
Modified: 2026-02-19 21:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.6.1
Sentry Crash Report:


Attachments
Application menu without favorites compared to application menu with a favorite (791.38 KB, image/png)
2026-02-18 11:45 UTC, Matthew McInerney
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Description Matthew McInerney 2026-02-18 11:45:26 UTC
Created attachment 189734 [details]
Application menu without favorites compared to application menu with a favorite

The search bar is misaligned in the application menu when there are no favorites added.
See attached image (compare_menu.png) for example.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.2-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Manufacturer: ASUS
Comment 1 tigockel+kde 2026-02-18 12:41:24 UTC
*** Bug 516198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 cwo 2026-02-19 11:09:33 UTC
Git commit 25c0e777df7c26091565cfb5a1b096f29bf94941 by Christoph Wolk.
Committed on 19/02/2026 at 10:29.
Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'.

applets/kicker: only set anchor margin if there is a sidebar

The seachField is positioned manually, as we need it in different
layouts (and LayoutProxyItem causes issues with focus management here).
This means we need to allow space for the sidebar manually using margins
 - but only if there is one (i.e. it has items in it). Currently, we
don't check for that.

Instead, only set the margins if there are favorites.
FIXED-IN: 6.6.1

M  +2    -2    applets/kicker/MenuRepresentation.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/25c0e777df7c26091565cfb5a1b096f29bf94941
Comment 4 cwo 2026-02-19 21:54:25 UTC
Git commit cfe8623a0b70682c1958c823a2131d716439c10b by Christoph Wolk.
Committed on 19/02/2026 at 19:14.
Pushed by cwo into branch 'Plasma/6.6'.

applets/kicker: only set anchor margin if there is a sidebar

The seachField is positioned manually, as we need it in different
layouts (and LayoutProxyItem causes issues with focus management here).
This means we need to allow space for the sidebar manually using margins
 - but only if there is one (i.e. it has items in it). Currently, we
don't check for that.

Instead, only set the margins if there are favorites.
FIXED-IN: 6.6.1


(cherry picked from commit 25c0e777df7c26091565cfb5a1b096f29bf94941)

Co-authored-by: Christoph Wolk <cwo.kde@posteo.net>

M  +2    -2    applets/kicker/MenuRepresentation.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/cfe8623a0b70682c1958c823a2131d716439c10b