Show quicklist even when closed

[Cassidy James Blaede]

We should show the quicklist in the dock even when Switchboard is closed.

Here's a possible (somewhat dirty) workaround:

1. Switchboard is launched
2. Switchboard checks what plugs are available
3. Switchboard makes sure the quicklist in its .desktop matches what's available

Right now it's pretty useless to only show it when the app is open.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Marking LibUnity as affected since this is a limitation of LibUnity.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Is this important enough to warrant the implementation of that Cassidy's hack? What is the official LibUnity stance on this use case of quicklists?

[Djax (parnold-x)]

With the static .desktop quicklist afaik it is not possible to make categories with sub menuitems.
One attempt would be to add the dynamic quicklist items from another process that always runs?
I would implement this if this is ok. If yes. Is there a process where this fits or a own process?

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Still a thing in Loki. Not sure if/how we want to work around it.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Yeah I think the only way to do this would be to have an always running process to do this. I'm inclined to mark it as either "opinon" or "won't fix" because I'm not sure the benefits outway to performance drawbacks. Opening Switchboard is fast already

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Also to be considered is that you can launch directly to plugs by searching slingshot