Plasma 5 Applets kde panel plasma title window
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-title/
This is a Plasma 5 applet that shows the current window title and icon in your panels. This plasmoid is coming from Latte land but it can also support Plasma panels.
You can install this applet directly from Plasma 5 Widgets Explorer
Version 0.6.0 2 months ago
* support more window actions with mouse:
- Double Left Click : Maximize/restore active window
- Middle Click : Close active window
- Scroll up : Cycle between tasks
- Scroll down : Minimize tasks
- Ctrl + Scroll up : Maximize active window (this is also possible with double left click)
- Ctrl + Scroll down : Restore active window from maximized state
* add a placeholder-text option to be shown when no window is visible and the user does not want the current Activity name to be drawn
* option to disable the title tooltip
Version 0.6.0 2 months ago
* support more window actions with mouse:
- Double Left Click : Maximize/restore active window
- Middle Click : Close active window
- Scroll up : Cycle between tasks
- Scroll down : Minimize tasks
- Ctrl + Scroll up : Maximize active window (this is also possible with double left click)
- Ctrl + Scroll down : Restore active window from maximized state
* add a placeholder-text option to be shown when no window is visible and the user does not want the current Activity name to be drawn
* option to disable the title tooltip
Version 0.5.2 4 months ago
* fix bold font kerning issues
Version 0.5.1 7 months ago
* improve window title discovery for flatpaks
* do not show empty window title when there are information from the application
Version 0.5.0 8 months ago
* use Latte Windows Tracking interface when in Latte v0.9
* do not use icon size in computations when icon is not visible
* do not draw Application Name/Window Title separator when any of these two could not be retrieved
Version 0.4.1 10 months ago
* improve signaling for Broadcaster
* close ComboBox popup after selecting an item
* add some debug messages
Version 0.4 1 year ago
-- dont elide if there is free space in the panel
-- improve metrics and calculations for better visual results
-- support Unity behavior when used with Window AppMenu 0.4 in latest Latte master
-- update Appearance settings
Version 0.3 1 year ago
- improve defaults and behavior for Latte edit mode
- elide text if applet exceeds panel space
- elide only title when needed
- improvements for settings window
- synchronize scrolling for substitutions elements
- support new Latte Communicator mechanism from Latte git version
Version 0.2 1 year ago
- Fifth Text Style, "Do not show any text"
- Font option to capitalize first letters
- Multi-screen aware in order to locate active window in the current screen or at all screens
- Support user-set maximum icon size
- Double click to maximize/restore active window (for plasma panels)
- Option to hide Activity information when no window is active
- Split settings to Appearance and Behavior
- Show tooltip when hovering to provide more information
- Support Application Name substitutions in Behavior settings page
Version 0.1 1 year ago
- Four different text styles, [application, Title, Application - Title, Title - Application]
- Support both horizontal and vertical alignments
- Show window icon
- Maximize window icon to applet thickness (optional)
- Bold/Italic font
- Set maximum length in pixels or use all the required space to show all contents
- Set spacing between icon and title
- Left/Right or Top/Bottom margins
- Multi-screen ready
- Show activity name/icon when there is not any active window
- Double click in order to maximize/restore active window (for plasma panels)
- Latte v0.9 ready
- - support new painting
- - support maximize/restore active window
- - support dragging active window from latte panel
9 excellent!
Unfortunaley -1 for displaying an empty space instead of an icon when there's no active app/window, and a fixed "Default" text instead of app/window name/title.
Didn't know @Paulnx, thanks for sharing. ;)
This applet is really very complete and flexible, now I understand the term you used (Swiss army knife), a shame it was abandoned and some of the functions don't work ...
Window Title suits me perfectly well, but I confess that I would love to have the possibility of interacting with mouse gestures, to minimize, maximize, restore and close windows! :)
@Psifidotos, congratulations on your great work, you're so talented at what you do, I'd like to share with you some feature ideas you'd like to see in future versions of the Window Title Applet:
1. Interaction with mouse commands, being possible to perform actions to maximize, minimize, restore and close the focus window, the commands could be configurable, the default could be, scrolling forward maximizes the window, scrool backwards, minimize, double left click, restore, middle button, close. By default the entire applet area would be sensitive to mouse commands, there could also be an option to set the length (px) of the sensitive area.
2. When the option to show the icon is active, left-clicking on the icon would make it interesting to see the traditional options menu (minimize, maximize/restore, more actions, close), as it is currently done by clicking on the icon, application window icon, another possibility would be to access these options by clicking on the text of the window title and application name.
3. Option to configure an icon, custom text, or fetch from the system the image and username when the Plasma desktop is displayed.
9 excellent
10 the best
10 the best
9 excellent
10 it is excellent doing its job and is very configurable
8 great
9 excellent
Greath!
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Is it possible to get 'Title' to act as 'hide activity information', that is not to display, if you're displaying application title and window title in different widgets and they both have the same text?
For example, I can start Lollypop and both application name (from Window Active Control) and title name (from Window Title Applet) show Lollypop until I start playing a song whereas Title shifts to the artist. I would prefer title to not display until a song is played so it doesn't duplicate.
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+ bery job
Thank you.
Great applet for active window replacement with standart global menu
MIssing some configuration like choosing fonts or icon when there is no one, but still good replacement.
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Base: 4 x 5.0 Ratings
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sjnunez3
19 days ago
If I had to make one request it would be to add the ability to change font and font size (unless I am completely overlooking a way to do it through Plasma settings).
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sadi
1 month ago
Unfortunaley -1 for displaying an empty space instead of an icon when there's no active app/window, and a fixed "Default" text instead of app/window name/title.
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Psifidotos
1 month ago
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sadi
1 month ago
Still I think it could be better to display something else other than "Default" in such a case (e.g. Plasma Workspace) although it has become trivial for me now. ;-)
And what about the blank icon space?
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ishayu
1 month ago
So basically you click the name, and that opens a menu where you can select to hide other windows, or close the current window, or close all windows, etc.
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th0m4s
2 months ago
As we now have the option to show custom text when no window is active, it would be a great addition to be able to configure a custom icon as well.
With the custom icon, I could configure the display of my Linux distribution logo and its name with the current custom text option. :)
Also my user's profile picture and name (maybe even an option that does this automatically).
The possibilities for customizing these functions would be enormous ...
Now I can display phrases, when I have no active window, I will extract this feature by displaying the following phrase for some time "I love the open source world, long live Linux!". ;)
Thank you very much @Psifidotos, you are the wizard of applests!
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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th0m4s
2 months ago
It would be the same concept that you made it possible to configure the text to be displayed in that same situation, in this latest version.
Perhaps this image illustrates one of the customizations that would be possible:
https://imgur.com/gDyy7f2
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
1. Set your placeholder text to what you like
2. Change your active Plasma Activity icon to what you like
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th0m4s
2 months ago
I didn't know the possibility of item "2", I'll learn how to do that ...
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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th0m4s
2 months ago
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d3n1s
2 months ago
This applet is really very complete and flexible, now I understand the term you used (Swiss army knife), a shame it was abandoned and some of the functions don't work ...
Window Title suits me perfectly well, but I confess that I would love to have the possibility of interacting with mouse gestures, to minimize, maximize, restore and close windows! :)
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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d3n1s
2 months ago
Do we have any chance of doing the main window actions with the mouse wheel in the future?
Its solutions are great, I use them all, it raises the level of my productivity, in addition to providing a unique identity to the desktop, the main differential compared to the other solutions, is that besides being constantly improving (bug fixes, performance, new features), you hear and answer questions from users.
This is fantastic, keep it up, the KDE Plasma community thanks you for your contributions!
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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d3n1s
2 months ago
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
For 2, is already answered in github page that it is not possible
For 3 is already implemented
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d3n1s
2 months ago
You say that the action of minimizing by scrolling backwards does not make sense, because once the applet is minimized it could not show it again.
I don't see any problem with that, as this is the default behavior of the minimize button in the windows.
The practicality of rolling the scroll back and obtaining the same action is that in addition to being more intuitive and practical, the sensitive area is infinitely larger than that of a button, this would also save walking with the mouse and the precision needed for a click on a small button.
Could you provide the link for item 2?
About item 3, if this is already possible, great, but in my opinion this is more aesthetical than functional. Options are never too much! I never particularly noticed the functionalities of item 3, perhaps because my version is old?
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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d3n1s
2 months ago
What caught my attention the most was the third interaction (Scroll up: Cycle between tasks), I'm not sure if this is the default behavior on all Chromium-based browsers, but Brave works exactly that way, when scrolling over the tab bar, toggles between the open tabs! Amazing!
I look forward to implementing these features. :)
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
3. in master version there is a placeholder option for the text to show... in current version the icon and text used come from the current activiti icon/text... If you change your current activity icon/text then the applet should follow afterwards
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d3xt3r
2 months ago
1. Interaction with mouse commands, being possible to perform actions to maximize, minimize, restore and close the focus window, the commands could be configurable, the default could be, scrolling forward maximizes the window, scrool backwards, minimize, double left click, restore, middle button, close. By default the entire applet area would be sensitive to mouse commands, there could also be an option to set the length (px) of the sensitive area.
2. When the option to show the icon is active, left-clicking on the icon would make it interesting to see the traditional options menu (minimize, maximize/restore, more actions, close), as it is currently done by clicking on the icon, application window icon, another possibility would be to access these options by clicking on the text of the window title and application name.
3. Option to configure an icon, custom text, or fetch from the system the image and username when the Plasma desktop is displayed.
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Psifidotos
2 months ago
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paulnx
2 months ago
I currently use the solutions provided by Psifidotos, it would be great to have these capabilities, this would positively reflect on my productivity. :)
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