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

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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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[–] quaff 2 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

KDE has always favoured SSD over CSD. So it kind of makes sense that LIM was rejected.

https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/02/client-side-window-decorations-and-wayland/

Aesthetically, I think CSD is the way to go. But functionally, I love KDE too much to use anything else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

@quaff @unknown1234_5 Aesthetics is a matter of opinion and I disagree with you. I think crowded title bars, each in a different way, don’t look good.

KDE was always configurable so I wonder if it’s possible (and how hard is it) to handle both depending on configuration… 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well obviously this would be an option and not a requirement (like the existing app menu titlebar button and panel widget, as well as the global menu widget.). there was some discussion of it being the default but I don't think it should be because I agree that crowded titlebars don't look that good. regardless, I think it should be an option because it gives people more control over the usage of space on there screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@unknown1234_5 @quaff I agree. It should be an option.

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