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What if the Title bar part of each window could contain plasmids. We already have extra buttons for doing things like stay on top. I think there is some work to make this part of the window contain tabs.

Some useful plasmoids might be
-A mini clock.
-A status bar to show that the application has a job in progress.
-Assignable inputs and outputs for ProAudio Apps (if you are at all familiar with jack)
- Status information of how much Memory Processor power that Application is using.
-Indicator that the application has superuser powers.
-A timer to indicate how long the user had been looking at a particular application.
-A tool to organise Windows into groups.

Of course this might work best if we end up with a Windows decoration that uses the same theme as the plasma desktop does. I am not sure that it would be feasable for existing windows decorations to do this. All existing features could be implemented as plasmoids.

thats what panels are for...

waldelf wrote:thats what panels are for...

Sort of. Some, or even most, of the examples mentioned would work best in a panel, but I can definately see a use-case for having a standard way of showing on a window-by-window or app-by-app basis whether it's running with root-privileges or how much of the CPU it's using.

Whether that should be in the titlebar, using plasmoids, or some other way is an entirely different question though.

I like this idea and the examples mentioned, such as status, progress, etc, sound interesting. I'm surprised it's down-rated so much. I wish people could be more constructive by explaining why they down-rate things.

I guess one problem would be things getting overly crowded up there. There are many apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc) that make full use of the title bar.

Generally, I think it would be interesting to 'plasma-fy' the title bar, so you could for instance choose a different plasmoid for displaying the title (one that does scrolling for instance, or switch between various info, such as status and progress), or add/remove buttons, etc

It would require xembed, which apparently is considered a very bad idea by kwin developers.

It would be so much work for the developers for so few use-cases. It should be easier to implement a few title-bar-plugins.

The User wrote:It would be so much work for the developers for so few use-cases. It should be easier to implement a few title-bar-plugins.

good point

It could be used to do the same job as Ubuntu's proposed "windicators" but be a lot less of a hack.

another good use would be per-app volume control.

I think it is goofy to have a seporate window manager for plasmoids, and for applications.

To the user, they are the same, or not really that different.

kwin and corona logically do the same thing, and I want my kwin to do more of what plasma does, and plasma to do more of what kwin does.

We currently have docking toolbars... that can be torn off and rearranged. These should be "push downable" into plasmoids, and plasmoids should be "pull upable", Note that amarok is already doing this, and people generally think it is awesome...