martinkostolny added a comment.
Thanks for taking the time to think about this. The number of settings (and their inconsistencies) are actually a big pain of this project. I'd like to rework it from the ground up. So if I may, I'd like to postpone your patch. When I'm finished with the planned rework I'll definitely add your use-case into account. I'd actually like to present my point of view here so we can discuss if it is a good idea or not: I'm proposing to have a bunch of standalone items with some common placement settings. The items are: - icon - text - window buttons - appmenu Mentioned items would be placeable by drag-drop in settings like window buttons are already. Each item would have following settings in common: - occupying | floating - horizontal alignment: left | right Window text and appmenu would additionally have: - fill width - fill height (default: true) Appmenu and buttons would additionaly have: - height - vertical alignment: top | bottom | center - hide on mouse out Of course there will still be specific settings for the items like window title eliding etc. I also plan to create some presets like: 1. Unity (Ubuntu style) 2. Thick (thick panel with floating and disappearing menu and buttons over icon and title) 3. One Liner (from the left: buttons, icon, window text, appmenu) Any opinions are appreciated :). REPOSITORY R884 Active Window Control Applet for Plasma REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D11071 To: Pitel, #plasma, martinkostolny Cc: plasma-devel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart
