Bug 518749 - Allow removing favorites through dragging them out of the sidebar
Summary: Allow removing favorites through dragging them out of the sidebar
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Menu (Kicker) widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.6.80
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2026-04-09 19:56 UTC by cwo
Modified: 2026-04-22 10:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.7.0
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Description cwo 2026-04-09 19:56:16 UTC
Adding favorites through darg&drop already works in kickerdash and is being added to kicker with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3633

It would be nice to also be able remove favorites by dragging them out of the sidebar and onto the parts of kicker that do not accept drops. See the linked MR for a bit of discussion as well.

Once implemented, we might want something similar for kickerdash and kickoff as well. 


Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.26.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.19.10-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 520
Comment 1 TraceyC 2026-04-10 14:31:51 UTC
This would improve consistency
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2026-04-16 15:11:21 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3666
Comment 3 cwo 2026-04-22 10:42:09 UTC
Git commit 266936877df8328ca4417e2bb026b3cc4f5d867f by Christoph Wolk.
Committed on 22/04/2026 at 09:49.
Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'.

applets/kicker: allow removing favorites through drag&drop

Kicker allows adding favorites with drag&drop, but not removing them.

This change allows this by dragging things out of the sidebar, or into a
different area of the sidebar. When a drop would remove the favorite,
its position in the list is replaced with a remove placeholder, similar
to the insertion placeholder when adding favorites. We also center the
placeholder icon and make it larger, to match the corresponding change
in kickerdash.
FIXED-IN: 6.7.0

M  +14   -0    applets/kicker/MenuRepresentation.qml
M  +10   -12   applets/kicker/SideBarItem.qml
M  +16   -10   applets/kicker/SideBarSection.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/266936877df8328ca4417e2bb026b3cc4f5d867f