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'Locally Integrated menus' in KDE (kbin.earth)

submitted 2 weeks ago by unknown1234_5@kbin.earth to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Back in 2017, a bug report was created on bugzilla asking for 'Locally Integrated Menus' like the Unity desktop. This was a feature where the menubar of an app was displayed in the titlebar, appearing on hover by default (though you could make it always visible).

Over the next couple years there was some development, but it was mostly in individual window decorations such as "Material Decoration". In 2021, there was a merge request made to finally add LIMs into KDE plasma as an option for titlebars. Unfortunately, due to proximity to the release of plasma 6, reliance on x11, and "a technical disagreement over where it should live" [Guido Iodice, @giodice, 2023 comment under merge request], the merge request has had no changes since August 11, 2021.

Personally, I would love to have this feature as it would save a entire menubar's worth of vertical space on my screen and would allow me to make use of some of the dead space in my titlebars. similar sentiments were expressed throughout the threads under both the bug report and the merge request. many people also talked about giving the option of showing on hover (like unity) or showing always (my preference), and some even suggested making it the default behavior. Do you think this would be a good feature?

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[–] aemstuz@pol.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@unknown1234_5 And then you have no place to click on the title bar to move or maximize the window.

No.

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well first, it'd be optional like everything else in the titlebar. second, meta+left click and meta+right click for moving and resizing respectively. third, it doesn't have to take up the whole titlebar, and most apps don't have enough options for it to do that anyway.

[–] aemstuz@pol.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@unknown1234_5 All is true but I'm still not convinced. As you wrote, "most apps" and "doesn't have to". All these mean it will happen in some cases that you have to press a Meta key to do things you were supposed to be able to do with just your mouse.

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

yeah, but you could always use a spacer to reserve some space or change what parts of an app are draggable. you also could simply not use this feature. that way whoever wants this feature has it and everyone else can continue to not care about it, like most of the options in any software.

edit: typed the instead of that, fixed it.