mart added a comment.
yes, this should stay. this was done in order to have labels automatically vertically align with other controls with just a Row (before RowLayout and Layout.alignment was a thing) as David says, will get rid of those once all is ported to new controls REPOSITORY R242 Plasma Framework (Library) REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D8146 To: nicolasfella, #plasma Cc: mart, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, #frameworks, #plasma, ZrenBot, progwolff, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol