Window AppMenu Applet

Plasma 5 Add-Ons applet appmenu plasma5 window

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu

Score 83.6%

Description:

This is a Plasma 5 applet that shows the current window appmenu in your panels. This plasmoid is coming from Latte land but it can also support Plasma panels.

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To install it you should build it yourself, installing it from Plasma Widgets Explorer directly wont work.

Requires:
-- Qt >= 5.9
-- KF5 >= 5.38
-- Plasma >= 5.12

Qt elements: Quick Widgets DBus
KF5 elements: Plasma WindowSystem
X11 libraries: XCB RandR

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You can use: sh install.sh , in order to install it if you have previous development packages available

Last changelog:

Version 0.5.1 3 months ago

* fix buttons vertical positioning. Previously there were cases where buttons had 1px. difference with surrounding applets

paju
12 days ago

will it compile on freebsd? i want to have global menus on freebsd

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visika
1 month ago

10 10 the best

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matter-of-course
1 month ago

I don't know if this is related to the applet or something more general about KDE; but when I have two activities, one using this global menu and one without any global menu, the second activity's programs have no menu bars at all! Not even on their own windows. Is there a solution for this that allows me to keep different layouts across activities?

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Psifidotos
1 month ago

Nothing to do with the applet, it is how Global menu works. You can try to open a feature request for plasma and see how it goes

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matter-of-course
1 month ago

Alright. I'll try. Thanks for the swift reply.

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DanielRios549
1 month ago

WTF man, I have to compile this? You must compile and share the program ready for use...

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ftrh
2 months ago

can i make font bold ?

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dinhokusanagi
3 months ago

I would like this information to be put into the documentation

1 - INSTALL THE DEPENDENCE ON THE TEXT FILE INSTALLATION

2 - chmod a + x install.sh

3 - ./install.sh

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rokre22
3 months ago

10 10 the best

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trompita
3 months ago

Hi! when I try to compile I have this bug:

Got unknown type `a(ia{sv})'
You should add to the XML description
make[2]: *** [plugin/libdbusmenuqt/CMakeFiles/dbusmenuqt.dir/build.make:66: plugin/libdbusmenuqt/dbusmenu_interface.cpp] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:565: plugin/libdbusmenuqt/CMakeFiles/dbusmenuqt.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:141: all] Error 2

My distro is Manjaro. I compile your Window Button Applet, so I guess that is not a dependencies problem. Aah, I tried to compile previous versions with the same error.
:'c

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Psifidotos
3 months ago

https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu/issues for reporting issues

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S3 8

giuliv
4 months ago

8 8 great

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lebill
4 months ago

Hello. After a what seems successful installation, the plasmoid gives the following error:

Error loading QML file: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.windowappmenu/contents/ui/main.qml:29:1: module "org.kde.private.windowAppMenu" is not installed

Any help to solve this issue would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Psifidotos
4 months ago

you need to build and install this applet, you can NOT just added from Plasma Widgets Explorer. If you tried to build it and same things happen then open a bug report at: https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-appmenu/issues

containing also the output of your entire build process in command line

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wagner_william
4 months ago

9 9 excellent

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prangija
4 months ago

Great applet, thank you for implementing it :) I have one question/feature request: could you maybe implement the option to keep the application menu hidden until user hovers with mouse cursor over the applet in the panel? This would be great as it wouldn't clutter the panel all the time, while the application is active. The same feature would be great for the window buttons applet as well ;)

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Psifidotos
4 months ago

In Latte git version if you use windows title and Window AppMenu they both provide a Unity behavior option that you can enable.

In Unity mode the window title is shown by default until you hover it and the appmenu appears instead.

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prangija
4 months ago

Oh wow, that's great :) Didn't know about that one. I just installed the git version of Latte and set up everything as I wanted it to behave. Thanks for the info. Do you maybe know when will stable Latte version with these functionalities be released?

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Psifidotos
4 months ago

Read at the end of the article: http://psifidotos.blogspot.com/2019/06/latte-and-flexible-settings.html?m=1

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matter-of-course
5 months ago

Could you add an option to customize the menu's font? Right now it seems to depend on "general" as set in KDE's preferences. Something similar to the "digital clock" widget, that has the option to either use the default font or set a custom one.

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no1cares
5 months ago

9 9 excellent

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paju
6 months ago

can you make it work under wayland?

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ferchoj
6 months ago

10 Greath!

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dan9er
6 months ago

Cannot build. CMake is showing this error:

```
In file included from /home/dan9er/Projects/applet-window-buttons-0.3/libappletdecoration/appletdecorationplugin.cpp:26:0:
/home/dan9er/Projects/applet-window-buttons-0.3/libappletdecoration/previewclient.h:103:10: error: ‘void Decoration::Applet::PreviewClient::requestShowToolTip(const QString&)’ marked ‘override’, but does not override
void requestShowToolTip(const QString &text) override;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/dan9er/Projects/applet-window-buttons-0.3/libappletdecoration/previewclient.h:104:10: error: ‘void Decoration::Applet::PreviewClient::requestHideToolTip()’ marked ‘override’, but does not override
void requestHideToolTip() override;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```

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Psifidotos
6 months ago

This is an error of Window Buttons, why do you report it to AppMenu?

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Version 0.5.1 3 months ago

* fix buttons vertical positioning. Previously there were cases where buttons had 1px. difference with surrounding applets

Version 0.5.0 4 months ago

* show app menus also for inactive windows in multi-screen environment through Latte WindowsTracking v0.9 interface
* improve appearance when in Latte edit mode
* use new Latte Communicator API for v0.9

Version 0.4.2 6 months ago

* fix a serious crash for some systems when the user was clicking the menu items Plasma or Latte was crashing
* various improvements for Unity style behavior
* fix behavior with Latte git version dragging/maximizing/restoring active window from panel empty areas
* dont register the global menu service under wayland in order for windows to keep their global menus in their windows
* fix warnings on startup

Version 0.4.1 7 months ago

-- fix not showing menu items for all applications
-- fix RTL menu items alignment

Version 0.4 7 months ago

-- provide a Unity behavior option when used with Window Title v0.4 in latest Latte master
-- support horizontal scrolling
-- improve screen filtering

Version 0.3 9 months ago

- add an option in order to set spacing between menu items
- dont crash under wayland
- in edit mode show a menu sample in order to not show an empty space
- option to always fill maximum available space
- avoid empty QMenu (upstream plasma fix)
- reduce menu items spacing
- support new Latte Communicator mechanism

Version 0.2 11 months ago

- Scroll menu support when the menu is too big
- Option to show menus only from active/main windows
- support Latte painting for single button presentation
- dont hide menu when Latte is in editing mode (needs Latte>=0.9)
- show shortcuts properly when Alt is pressed

Version 0.1 11 months ago

- Minimize-state aware
- Multi-Screen aware
- Support Latte new painting
- based totally on official plasma appmenu applet in order to improve maintainability and code exchange