- Fix RecentUsage Apps, it now uses iconName instead of icon (Issue #76)
- Added config toggle for hiding the search field (Issue #81)
- Attempt to fix popupHeight shrinking when config is open bug. Only affects certain users with a particular screen scaling. (Issue #79)
- Updated Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #82)
- Added Russian translations by @Platun0v (Pull Request #77)
- Added Turkish translations by @oltulu (Pull Request #78)
- Fix right clicking an app (or dragging) to pin an app from the Search Results (Issue #74)
- Added Japanese translations by @ymadd (Pull Request #73)
- Use Math.ceil() to fix popup growing shorter every second (Issue #71)
- Fix tips list getting stuck at 1-2 cols width (Issue #72)
- Updated German translations by @4VRDriver (Pull Request #66)
- Add splash text to help user get started. Includes a button to use a default tile layout with: LibreOffice Writer, Calc, KMail or Gmail, Software Center (Octopi, YaST, Discover), Web Browser, and Steam.
- Add the Productivity/Explore group presets to the context menu when tiles are unlocked. Added the Gmail tile preset to the context menu too.
- Re-Enable the calculator search plugin by default. It was disabled after Plasma 5.9 as it caused Plasma to crash. Please report if you notice any crashes when searching. (Issue #28)
- Implement configuration for default search filters (Issue #28)
- Scale the app list section headers. They'll always be 4pt larger than the app list labels. (Issue #38)
- Add popup height control in config (Issue #57)
- Parse
_NETSCAPE_URLfrom firefox/chromium url drag+drop to use the website title for the label. - Fixed French "Lock Tiles" message by https://www.pling.com/u/eric63/
- Updated Dutch translation by @Vistaus (Pull Request #63)
- Add vertical gradient to tiles, which can be toggle off in the config.
- Only show "Tiles Only" button if it's the default view.
- Update ConfigPage to fix scrollbar overlap (Issue #62)
- Fix xdg folder button labels in the config.
- Remove old code that's no longer used (Issue #13), and update a couple config controls.
- Add Romanian translations by https://www.pling.com/u/sebyx87
- Use QML's internal Drag and Drop instead of Plasma's global drag.
- Fix adding tiles when the launcher is in a subdir (like wine apps).
- Show outline around grouped tiles when hovering group label. Dragged group highlight follows cursor.
- Remove hardcoded font.pointSize=10 assignment in TileItemView.
- Allow groups to have urls / run apps when left clicked.
- Use 350px AppList width when editing a tile (Issue #49)
- Updated German translations by @4tmelDriver (Pull Request #56)
- Prepare vertical gradient code.
- Hide Tiles Only button when tile grid is hidden completely.
- Cleanup a few warnings in plasmashell logs.
- Updated Dutch translation by @Vistaus (Pull Request #51)
- Updated Polish translations by @Qik000 (Issue #55)
- Grab a few translations from KDE as a few messages were changed in Plasma 5.18.
- Configurable sidebar width and icon size. Default sidebar is smaller. Popup buttons have a hover outline. Popup appears above, like other context menus and Win10.
- Close menu right away when launching app via search, instead of waiting for the app to steal focus before closing.
- Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #46)
- Update Portuguese (Portugal) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #47)
- Add Croatian translation by @VladimirMikulic (Pull Request #50)
- Fix sidebar menus not resizing to fix translated text (Issue #37).
- Add support for a 2x1 Lutris game tile preset.
- Don't "download" the linked file associated with a tile when opening the tile editor unless it's a
*.desktopfile. - Fix weird drag origins when moving tiles.
- Make sure the AppList area (and TileEditor) is visible when opened from TilesOnly view, and return to TilesOnly view when TileEditor is closed.
- Fix the "desktop theme" search view being slightly visible in TilesOnly view (Issue #40)
- Fix double "Keyboard Shortcut" tab in Plasma 5.15
- Add Indonesian translations by @ardumpl (Issue #34)
- Updated Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #36)
- You can now easily import/export a tile layout (Issue #19).
- Can be configured to start in "Tiles Only" mode, revealing the app list after a search.
- The "menu" button showing all the labels has been removed, since you can now hover a button and instantly see the tooltip.
- The "Apps" sidebar tooltip now shows "Alphabetically".
- Sorting Apps Alphabetically and Categorically now have use a bundled icon that better represents them. The icons (including Tiles Only) are highlighted when they are "selected".
- Failed attempt at cancelling a drag event that starts after an app is launched.
- Add Korean translations by @crazyraven (Pull Request #31)
- Updated Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #32)
- Add ability to set the number of recent apps (Max=15).
- Show the sidebar item label in a tooltip when hovering it.
- Default to "Most Used" apps instead of "Most Recent" which can be changed back in the config.
- Add ability to move all tiles below a group label when a label is moved.
- Add ability to sort all tiles by name in a tile group.
- Add a tile preset selector for steam game launchers.
- Add a grid column spinbox in the config just in case the user does not notice they can resize with Alt+RightClick.
- Hide the default Global Shortcut config tab, and replace it with a tab mentioning you need
Alt+F1set for just pressing theMetakey to work.
- Update Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #23)
- Add Russian translations by @Niksn404 (Pull Request #25)
- Add European Portuguese translations by @nyxerys (Pull Request #26)
- Scale config section rectangles by the dpi.
- Hide tooltip when hovering the panel icon.
- Add 4px spacing between sidebar and app list.
- Hardcode Oxygen theme tile color to 12.5% transparent white.
- Hide the solid sidebar background color. "Desktop theme" styled sidebars remain the same.
- Add Jump to Letter/Category views when clicking the section header.
- Add ability to start in Jump To Letter/Category view when menu opens.
- Fix a binding loop when drawing tile labels which caused a line of text to overflow the bottom of the tile (Issue #11).
- Group apps starting with symbols/punctuation under '&'.
- Added Dutch translation by @Vistaus (Pull Request #15)
- Fix non-default font size causing issues in app list (Issue #7)
- Fix a number of deprecation warnings logged in Qt 5.11.
- Make sure the panel icon should be smooth.
- Focus on searchField when a sidebar menu closes.
- Fix icon sizes in the search filter view.
- Fix error when loading in Kubuntu 18.04 LiveCD. We now lazy load qml-module-qt-labs-platform which was used to retrieve the translated xdg folder names.
- Merge updated Chinese translations by https://github.com/lm789632
- Fix error when opening the config with Qt 5.9 / Kubuntu 18.04.
- Add ability to edit the sidebar shortcuts in the config. By default, only System Settings, Dolphin, ~/Pictures, and ~/Documents is visible. You can drop apps/folders onto the sidebar to add it, though you'll need to open the config to delete it.
- Use a "hover outline" effect for the app list, utilizing several lazy loading tricks to load the list faster. An option to use the Desktop Theme buttons will return in a later version.
- Add option to set the default app list order to "Categories" for when you first login.
- Remember tile drag offset. When you click the bottom right of a tile and drag, the cursor will drop the bottom right of the tile instead of the top left.
- Don't allow creating new groups when tiles are locked.
- Hide "Pin to Menu" and "Edit Tile" items when tiles are locked.
- Add a "Alt+RightClick" to resize hint to the bottom right when widget is in a top panel.
- Add drop shadow to the "power" and "switch user" sidebar submenues.
- Disable push effect when right clicking a tile.
- Add a radial hover effect similar to fluent design.
- Add "group" tile to quickly label a group of tiles. No other features are implmented yet (like moving all tiles in the group or "folders"). Right click the empty grid to add a "group" label.
- Support locking tiles so you don't accidentally drag them. Right click the empty grid > (un)lock tiles.
- Fix tileLabelAlignment, it never got reimplemented after the refactor.
- Fix tiles not launching unless we open and close the tile editor.
- Various fixes to make the menu faster to open (from a cold start).
- Lazy load the tile editor GUI for performance reasons.
- Add button to open the icon selector dialog to the tile editor.
- Configurable search field height.
- Spanish translations by Zipristin.
- Used a fixed panel icon by default, using the same icon size as the other icons in the panel.
- Support reseting a tile bg color to default by deleting the hex color text.
- Can now set a background image on a tile.
- Can edit the margins around the tiles.
- Apps in search now show their description instead the filepath to the shortcut.
- Hide the description if it's the same as the app name.
- Fix a few tile drag glitches when the drag leaves the grid.
- Only remove the right clicked tile when unpining if there are multiple tiles for an app.
- Open the localized version of ~/Music (eg: ~/Musik).
- Resets tiles. There is no migration path. Sorry.
- Tiles can now be placed on an actual grid, rather than a list of tiles that looks like one.
- Can now edit the icon, individual tile color, and set the size to anything. Can toggle the icon/text.
- 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, etc tiles are in a "list" style with the icon to the left of the label.
- Resets the menu width/height of the popup to default.
- You can now set the width of the app list.
- Added option to do a fullscreen popup.
- Rough implementation of filter dropdown menu in the search results.
- Updated zh_CN translations.
- Only support Plasma 5.9+
- Disable the calculator runner in the search. It crashes plasmashell under a certain condition (opening the context menu then searching for anything).
- Add ability to edit the text in tiles. Changing the size of the tile is still a work in progress.
- Add sidebar buttons to open ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Videos have been added depending on how much vertical space there is available. In the future, they will not appear by default and need to be configured in the settings once the UI has been drawn up.
- Replace the sidebar search button (which was fairly useless) with a button to list apps by category. Switching between A-Z and category view is a bit slow atm.
- Follow the default menu widget's (kicker) app list loading pattern.
- Support Plasma 5.9
- Break compatibility with Plasma 5.8 and below.
- Misc work on locale install scripts. Use kreadconfig5 which should be preinstalled.
- Add german translation by rumangerst.
- Lay groundwork for future features: reversing search results (align to bottom), category view, and moving the searchbox to the top.
- Chinese translations by https://github.com/lm789632
- Optimize updating the recent app list so it doesn't lag opening the menu.
- Clicking the user icon will now open a submenu with user manager/lock/logout/change user similar to Win10.
- Use the theme's background color for the sidebar instead of black.
- The app list icon size is now configurable.
- Add dictionary and windowsed widgets (eg: Calculator) to search results.
- Misc work for editing tiles.
- Support linking to user created custom .desktop files. Note that the label will be the filename, but the icon will work.
- You can now drag an app anywhere in the app list (not just the icon).
- Implement the context menu (right click menus) actions that are in the default menus (recent apps/actions/pin to taskbar). I filtered out "Add to Panel" and "Add to Desktop" since it isn't obvious that the user will want "Add as Launcher". The user can always drag the app to where they want as well.
- Make the current search filter button highlighted with a simple line instead of a box.
- Fuss with the A-Z header positioning.
- Expanding the sidebar now has a short transition. Pushing a button also has an effect.
- Prepare the utils for translating this and other widgets.
- Fix the white text on white bg in the "white" searchbox when using breeze dark.
- Support dropping on the empty area below the current favourites.
- Dropping a new favourite item will insert at that location instead of adding to the end of the list.
- Changed the search results to use the same ordering as Application Launcher (Merged) by default. You can also choose to use categorized sorting like Application Menu, but the order might not be ideal as the custom full text sorting was disabled.
- The panel icon now scales by default. A toggle was added to make it a fixed size (for thick panels).
- Added shortcuts to the KSysGuard, Dolphin, SystemSettings, Konsole, and System Info in the context menu.
- Added ability to toggle the Recent Apps.
- Add a push down effect when clicking a favourite.
- Bind Esc to close the menu.
- Support closing the menu with Meta.
- Focus on the search box when clicking the menu background (and dismiss the power/sidebar menu).
- Show the app description after the name by default instead of below it.
- Tile text can now be center or right aligned.
- App description can now be after the app name, or hidden altogether.
- Use the system-search-symbolic icon instead of search and system-search.
- Optionally use the "widget/frame.svg" #raised from the desktop theme for the sidebar. The background color is drawn underneath when the power menu is open (since most themes have the svg transparent).
- Fix the sidebar when an icon doesn't exist in the icon theme.
- Fix a number of scaling issues when using a non default DPI.
- Fix tile/sidebar colors reseting to black when configuring.
- Use sidebar color in power menu.
- Changed the color scheme for sidebar icons.
- Padding to the section headings.
- Assign the description color based on the text color.
- Use the icon hover effect from taskmanager instead of a solid rectangle for the panel icon.
- Configurable tile color (for when the desktop theme uses a weird background color).
- Configurable sidebar color (because black isn't always best).
- Configurable panel icon.
- The search box can now be configured to follow the desktop theme (still default to white though).
- Refactor the search results and app list to resuse the same code.
- Ability to drag files/launchers from dolphin to the favourites grid.
- Hovering the panel icon while dragging opens the menu.
- Use custom config style.
- First release posted on reddit (under the name kickstart).
- No configuration.