In the Kickoff launcher, the History tab has Applications on the top and Documents on the bottom. I never use Applications, so if I want to access the most recently-used document, I need to scroll or press down 12 times.

Is there a way to hide Applications? It looks like there used to be, but this setting seems to have disappeared. I also looked through /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff, but there was nothing obvious there to hack.

I'm using an up-to-date Arch Linux, with Plasma 5.18.4.1.

Right click on the application launcher and edit it (or do so in System Settings), and drag the Item "Often used" to the Launcher (and remove the "History" entry if you want). This shows only Documents and Folders

Thanks Mamarok! I totally missed that. However, is the "Often used" list derived from somewhere different to "History"? The items in it are all different, and include files that I haven't opened in months!

it shows the most used documents and folders, which might be different to the most recently used.

Ah okay. I'd actually like the most recently used if possible, so if there's a way to restrict that tab to documents, that would be awesome.

That only works in History I am afraid, and this will always also show the applications first.

No worries. Hopefully someone can comment on hacking the source files. Cheers.

Another thing you can do, is right click on the application menu button and choose "Show Alternatives", then choose "Application Menu" which has a simpler interface but will have the option to hide the recent applications.

elibenyaacov wrote:Another thing you can do, is right click on the application menu button and choose "Show Alternatives", then choose "Application Menu" which has a simpler interface but will have the option to hide the recent applications.

Nice! I haven't tested that one for a while, but it's much better than I remember. I'll give that a bit of a try. Thank you!