Global menu bar for the workspace (Plasma)
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alex-l, Feb 29 2016

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Concept of a global menu bar for Plasma's workspace (not for the current application)

This is just an idea, no working code available.

This plasmoid will be put in a panel on the top side of the screen, providing menu for managing the workspace, windows, activities and sessions.

Why?

  • a lot of screens have more horizontal space and many users use a very long panel to take advantage of it
  • users ask for global menu bar for the current application, but it won't be available until Plasma 5.7 or 5.8. This one could be a replacement and help in studying the global menu component from UX and tech points of view
  • when global menu for current app will be available, it could be used also together with this global menu for workspace
  • very important: to show to new users hidden features of Plasma (this doesn't mean this plasmoid should be shipped by default...). These features include managing windows, activities and sessions

The currently proposed entries:

  • Applications
    • categories of installed apps
    • favorite apps
    • recent apps
    • recently installed apps
  • Places
    • places shown in Dolphin's panel: home, mounted drives etc
  • Activities
    • list of available activities (to switch between them)
    • new activity
    • manage activities (show the activities side bar)
    • linked to this activity (start Dolphin to show files linked to the current activity)
  • Window (or Windows?)
    • controls of the current window: close, maximize, minimize, keep above/under, hide decorations
    • entries to place windows vertically, horizontally...
    • all windows (start the effect to show windows of all desktops and activities)
    • windows on this activity
    • windows on this desktop
    • minimize all (show desktop)
    • close all
  • Session
    • logout
    • new session
    • reboot
    • shutdown
alex-l created Global menu bar for the workspace (Plasma).Feb 29 2016, 7:06 PM
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Global menu bar for the workspace (Plasma) sounds interesting
but
What happend to this project?
Is it dead already?

What project? The global menu bar applet is alive and well. As I understand it, this is a mockup proposal to extend it to have additional items when plasmashell itself is focused.

just a proposal, i see.
i find that idea very useful.
Is there any chance for such a kind of extension to be published?

Sure, if someone does the work. :)

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ulliperk added a comment.EditedAug 12 2022, 2:32 PM

There is a freebsd project https://github.com/helloSystem/Menu
They look like already being developing a kind of QT global menu like the one proposed above.

Would this be interesting to KDE developers?