(Plasma 6.6 beta 1) Application menu is "scrunched"

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I have just updated to plasma 6.6 beta 1 and noticed that the app categories and apps in the categories are smaller vertically with smaller icons and text. I searched the patch notes and I could not find any mentions of changes to application manager at all
I only have 1 screenshot from before which is kinda messy, I think because I did more than one thing with an nvidia gpu, but you should be able to tell the scale difference.
Before:

Before (with special nvidia spices)
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After:
After (more vertically scrunched)
After (more vertically scrunched)343×503 23.7 KB

Additionally all the submenus have effectively useless scrollbars that scroll about 5 pixels for seemingly no reason.

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That second shot seems to be the normal me think.

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i like the After shot better… looks more like what i’m used to.

if you want to reduce the size of the menu, it’s being driven by how many favorites you have pinned there.

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Myeah, the standard one is, imho, ridiculous. If you have your favs pinned on the left, the entire menu grows very big with a lot of empty space in the root menu. I don’t use that menu ( or it’s enhanced version) myself but it could use a revamp. Submenus have no consistency in width.

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Even Jgmenu does a better job at that:

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if you have your menu on the right, do the submenu’s still fold back on themselves in stead of cascading to the left like a normal person?

they seem to have a rightward bias and as soon as there is space to the right it goes back on itself.

makes it hard to see the submenus

that behavior has been bugging me since kubuntu 22.04

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Hahahaha……:rofl:

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so that’s a no, i’m guessing.

still not fixed

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Now now, that’s grumpy :rofl:

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just seems like a simple thing to fix for those of use who using a vertical task bar on the right.. it’s very annoying when you have nested menus more than 2 deep (which i try to avoid because of this).

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Well, if this is normal, then my application menu has been rendering way too large for the last ~2 years. It only changed once I updated to the 6.6 beta, and it isn’t my plasma style or panel colorizer because I’ve presently disabled and defaulted each respectively.

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Yep, pretty sure it’s normal.

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Did you change the icon set? I mean, I’ve seen iconsets change the margin/padding on panels and menus.

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I have changed the icon set, but I have been using those icons depicted for a long time, pretty much as long as I’ve been using plasma. Changing the icons to breeze does not make the sub menus take up the same amount of space as before. The only thing I did between the 2 looks of the application launcher was upgrade to plasma 6.6 beta 1.