https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522478

cwo <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
                 CC|                            |[email protected]

--- Comment #3 from cwo <[email protected]> ---
We don't include options just to have more options, but because they provide a
meaningful benefit to users. Each option has a cost, as it makes both user
interface and implementation more complicated. So the feature/option has to be
meaningful enough to be worth that cost.

With Icons-and-Text task managers, the unopened launcher looks very different
from an opened one, as one is an icon and the other is a button-like thing with
icons and text. Here, the option somewhat makes sense: if launchers are kept
separate, you have first all unopened launchers, then the open ones. This is a
bit easier to understand than having the different types mixed, but means that
the order of pinned things may change as you open and close them. If you don't
keep them separate, you get a consistent order as you open and close pinned
launchers, but have very different visual presentations mixed together.

With the Icons-Only task manager, this is largely not a problem, as the
launcher is presented in fundamentally the same way whether it's opened or
closed (there is a bit of a change in the background though to indicate whether
it's opened or not). So you would need to show some clear, meaningful benefit
to this option.

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