Kickoff

Kickoff is KDE Plasma's default application launcher menu.

Ways to communicate

Mailing List: [email protected] (info page)

IRC Channel: #plasma-devel on freenode

Phabricator project: https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/35/

Top bugs and feature requests

• When pressing the tab key, whole plasma session freezes with 100% CPU usage: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402700
• With a vertical panel, Kickoff's tabs are messed up the first time it's opened: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395390
• Removed Favorites in Kicker/Kickoff sometimes come back: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385814
• Can mark items in the "Leave" tab as favorites, but they don't actually show up in the Favorites tab: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394924
• KWin's "High" focus stealing prevention setting breaks opening Kickoff: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336134
• Kicker/Kickoff/Application Dashboard launchers should expose more KRunner plugins and let the user specify which ones to include: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382760
• Applications tab is practically unusable; much too much clicking is required navigate to and between categories: https://phabricator.kde.org/T9040
• Power-related features are on another tab rather than always visible on the bottom somewhere: https://phabricator.kde.org/T9041
• Kickoff Application Launcher should show round avatars, not square: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386656 (Patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13415)