KDE Plasma 5.8.1 Experiences

[vinnywright]

I certainly appreciate you being willing to give this approach a go. I hope the following works for you.

I right mouse click and select + Add Panel > Empty Panel. This normally places the empty panel at the top of the screen.

I then select the Application Menu, which in my case is a "launcher based on cascading popup menus". I choose an application, eg Firefox and drag it to the empty panel using the left mouse held down. You will see a faint square in the empty panel that it will occupy and it is dropped into the empty panel when the left mouse is released.

I then repeat this process for all the other applications that I use. For example, I have Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, Dolphin, Libreoffice Write, Libreoffice Calc, Kdenlive, System Settings, KsysGuard, Synaptic, Konsole, Screen Saver Start, Screen Saver Pause.

You will need to reboot after doing this because after doing the above setup, everything is visible, but it is blank after a reboot.

I will be very interested to know if you can repeat what I experience.

yes ,,,it dose the same thing @hear no mater what Application Menu I add the apps from

VINNY

[Snowhog]

You both have missed an essential step: you aren't adding the Task Manager widget to the new Panel. Not doing so results in the observed behavior; newly added applications to the new Panel are visible until you reboot.

[vinnywright]

You both have missed an essential step: you aren't adding the Task Manager widget to the new Panel. Not doing so results in the observed behavior; newly added applications to the new Panel are visible until you reboot.

I was under the impression that the task manager was for showing the open applications ,,,,,,what dose that have to do with launchers ?

But I will try that as well



VINNY

[acheron]

You both have missed an essential step: you aren't adding the Task Manager widget to the new Panel. Not doing so results in the observed behavior; newly added applications to the new Panel are visible until you reboot.

Don't need to have a taskmanager applet on a panel to add permanent application icons. My top panel has had them for years upon years with no taskmanager on that panel.

Are you thinking of setting taskmanager tasks to show a launcher icon when the task is not running? That is something entirely separate.

[Snowhog]

vinny@

You are right of course.

I just repeated NoWorries steps (having restarted KDE neon without the 'extra' Panel). I added an Empty Panel; added the Application Menu (Cascading); dragged Firefox, Dolphin, and Konsole to the new Panel (I didn't add the Task Manager). The icons for the K Menu, Firefox, Dolphin and Konsole are present. I logged out and then rebooted. My extra panel still has all four icons present. I'm running KDE neon Developer Edition.

[vinnywright]

vinny@

You are right of course.

I just repeated NoWorries steps (having restarted KDE neon without the 'extra' Panel). I added an Empty Panel; added the Application Menu (Cascading); dragged Firefox, Dolphin, and Konsole to the new Panel (I didn't add the Task Manager). The icons for the K Menu, Firefox, Dolphin and Konsole are present. I logged out and then rebooted. My extra panel still has all four icons present. I'm running KDE neon Developer Edition.

this may be the key ,,,,lets see .

the diference may be that you added the Application Menu to your new panel and added the launchers from that ,,,,,lets see.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

vinny@

You are right of course.

I just repeated NoWorries steps (having restarted KDE neon without the 'extra' Panel). I added an Empty Panel; added the Application Menu (Cascading); dragged Firefox, Dolphin, and Konsole to the new Panel (I didn't add the Task Manager). The icons for the K Menu, Firefox, Dolphin and Konsole are present. I logged out and then rebooted. My extra panel still has all four icons present. I'm running KDE neon Developer Edition.

this may be the key ,,,,lets see .

the diference may be that you added the Application Menu to your new panel and added the launchers from that ,,,,,lets see.

VINNY

yup thats it ,,,,,So the URL the launcher is pointing to may/must be specific to the Application Menu/panel that it came from......it would seam

VINNY

[vinnywright]

O and on a "KDE Plasma 5.8.1 Experiences" note ,,,,,,,,,,check out my new lock screen.

pushed to fix it ,,,,from hear https://plus.google.com/115617691996056037360/posts/KT5LohbzTeW

the "org.kde.video" .tar.gz linked to in that post is rog131's work ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,So

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Sweet! Scream'n Hot!

[vinnywright]

Sweet! Scream'n Hot!

LOL ,,,,,I'v had the video wallpaper sence back hear I think ,,,https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post385555 screen locker setting just came with the new plasma 5.8

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

It brought to mind a cartoon I saw a while back. It had the words:"Cremation! My last chance to have a smoking hot body!"


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[NoWorries]

Thanks for all the various tries to get this problem fixed.

I could only get something to work for me by choosing the Default Panel followed by removing all the "decoration". I was not able to remove the Launcher as it kept coming back. With this New Panel I could add applications but could not add items such as my Stop Screen Saver which just contains a command line.

Using the Modified Default Panel, the starting of say, 6 applications, leads to a messy but tolerable panel because all of these applications are all added to the Task Manager. The Empty Panel which does not have a Task Manager, has non of this added clutter.

I have tried different launchers and on reboot, the applications are still there. However if another reboot is done they disappear. I get wind of this when closing down, because a darker screen is displayed and the contents are blank. I am wondering if the culprit to this problem lies in the closing down of KDE.

[Tahaan]

I have a problem which might be related. My panels now stick to where I put them, even with reboots and external monitor add/remove (Lets say 98% of the time because I've had two glitches in this regard)

But my "Application Launcher" has stopped working suddenly shortly after upgrading to 5.8.1. This is a new problem - you click on the K menu icon and ... nothing happens.

There doesn't seem to be a way to fix this - I now have no Menu. I've added "Application Menu" to the desktop as a workaround.

[Snowhog]

Just delete it from the Panel and re-add it; should work.

[NoWorries]

Yes, I did the same after getting the latest updates. It is great that the contributers to fixing this problem have done it just before I really needed it. Such a relief and I am up and running!