Hi,
First off, pardon me for coming up with a weird title. I tried but I couldn't think of anything else.

I have only installed KDE base system on Arch and due to that I cannot force the quick launch icons to appear in multiple rows. I searched some similar queries but I cannot find settings like changing the icon size or forcing the icons in multiple rows. Please help me find settings or suggest me if there are any packages I need to download for those settings.

does your quicklaunch settings dialog look like this? if not can you post a pic

That's precisely what I was looking for because mine looks like this
http://imagebin.org/227126

seems that you can only specify number of rows when the launcher resides in a panel not on the desktop, your's is on the desktop I assume

Exactly! The launcher does have a setting to specify no. of rows when on panel. I tried dragging that launcher to the desktop hoping that it will still offer me that setting but no help. Anyways, I created a folder, added the desired .desktop files in that and used Folder view widget to view and open the desired apps, that will work for me!
And thanks for replying! I read the solution you suggested to numerous questions. Really appreciate your contribution to the forums (read humanity )!

you could place 2 quicklaunch widget side by side on the desktop emulating 2 rows or colums

That would also work! Thanks!