Better Popup Launcher is a Plasmoid for KDE Plasma 5, built upon Popup Launcher.

It adds an icon to the KDE Panel which loads a menu with application shortcuts, as selected by the user.

Compared to the original Popup Launcher, it comes with the following improvements:

1. You can add separators to the menu (separators can be thin lines, or spaces);
2. The position of the apps in the configuration window can be changed by drag and drop, rather than by arrow-clicking the tiny menu previously available (now no longer included);
3. The Panel tooltip actually works, and you can set a subtitle to it (did not work previously);
4. You can pick an icon for the panel using the KDE icon picker, rather than browsing the File open dialog;
5. The versions of most components imported into the Plasmoid have been updated.

How to Install

From the KDE Store:

• visit this page on the KDE store
• Download the attached .plasmoid file
• extract the files to ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/
• add the widget to the Panel

From Github:

• Download the latest release .plasmoid file
• extract the files to ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/
• add the widget to the Panel

..or else, look for "Better Popup Launcher" among the new Widgets directly from your Plasma desktop.

Gallery

working tooltip:

menu with separators:

improved config window:

integrated Icon picker: