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papavlos

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Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 67

Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch plasmoid

After the upgrade from Plasma5 to Plasma6 the drag&drop functionality for reorganizing icons in QuickLanch has gone.
Both, in Wayland and X11 sessions.
I mean the "stock" plasmoid by David Rosca from kde.org coming with 'kdeplasma-addons'.

I have spent some time on digging through the Internet but didn't find any information related to this issue.
Also after upgrading Plasma in Arch in virtual machine - same result. No drag&drop.

What did I miss?... Is it "by desing" like this?...

[edit]
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481922
Will let know here once it's solved. If ever...

[second edit]
While waiting for the solution I have found a (primitive) workaround:
- you have to logout and login as another user having sudo privileges
- go to your original user's ~/.config/ directory
- open in editor (with sudo) the file 'plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc'
- find the line beginning with "launcherUrls=" and manually reorder entries
- save, logout and login as the original user

Last edited by papavlos (2024-03-11 00:49:50)

bikesrok

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Registered: 2025-02-28

Posts: 1

Re: Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch plasmoid

I saw this solution:
   While waiting for the solution I have found a (primitive) workaround:
    - you have to logout and login as another user having sudo privileges
    - go to your original user's ~/.config/ directory
    - open in editor (with sudo) the file 'plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc'
    - find the line beginning with "launcherUrls=" and manually reorder entries
    - save, logout and login as the original user

I don't think it is necessary to go to another account. I edited that file while logged in, saved it, and logged out. That's all there is to it!

Thanks for a non-obvious but working solution ;-)

< david