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papavlos

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Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch

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 (2026-07-21 08:17:21)

bikesrok

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Registered: 2025-02-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch

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

papavlos

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Registered: 2017-09-23

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch

For admins: please don't blame me for necrobumping. This bug was really waiting so long for fixing!
The bug was reported in version: 5.18.4
The bug was fixed in version: 6.7.0

Mamoulian

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Registered: 2026-08-13

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Missing Drag&Drop for icon reordering in Plasma6 QuickLaunch

Thanks for the update.
Is it actually fixed?
I'm on 6.7.4 now and when trying to drag an icon around in the Quicklaunch popup menu/list no 'insert' line appears and letting the icon go it just stays where it was.