Here you can post your feature requests for the panel plugins. There is no guarantee that any of them will actually be implemented. Please keep the Xfce philosophy in mind and add a small explanation why this feature would be useful or a description of the problem it solves.

Wishes that are striked through are implemented or rejected by the developer.

This list is meant to act as a working list for future additions, not to reopen discussion on features and things that are history.

• Merge the 'monitor' plugins so you have one single plugin which can use modules to show various system information.
• Merge the iconbox and tasklist plugin.
• Put Dictionary plugin (like gnome dictionary). And if it's possible possibility of traduction of single words.
• Hide clipman when it's empty, and place it in the system tray if it's possible.
  • This should be optional (e.g. checkbox in the clipman plugin)
    • The plugin can be run in the notification area, thus it can be quit/started more easily, or auto-hidden with the notification applet. ⇒ The plugin doesn't come with an autohide feature in the end.
• Possibility to swap position of “Lock Screen” and “Quit” buttons in System Actions.
• Allow plugins to be run in the notification area, so they can be used with other panels, like tint2. (e.g. plugins: clipman & notes)

• Set launcher properties with DBus. This way you can change the icon with a monitoring script.
  • Not very user friendly to implement, when you have multiple launchers.
    • Looking for something like this: http://rox.sourceforge.net/Manual/Manual/Manual.html#soap
• Multiple launcher. This options will show all the items in 1 button (so multiple icons in 1 button) and will launcher them all when the button is pressed.
• Having appfinder merged/imbedded in
• When multiplelauncher icon doesnt launch an application itself, long click or arrow click could be replaced by simple click on icon ( if first app link to no command then no arrow for the following app).
• A tick to toggle the display of the arrow for “Multiple Launcher”
• Ability to slide items from the panel such as the trash, clipman,… to the multiple-single launcher
• Add an “Open maximized” checkbox to launch the application in maximized state. Most applications can at best just save their position+size to fill the entire screen, but don't save their last state.

• Option to only show windows from current screen (for multihead systems).
  • This works already that way. Probably depends on the display manager? (GDM in my case) The option would be more like display Tasks from all screens then.
• Show workspace name in the tooltip when showing windows from multiple workspaces.
  • Sort tasks by workspace.
• More flexible way of showing the button.
  • Rotate the buttons 90 degrees when the taskbar orientation is vertical.
  • Show buttons above each other when the taskbar is aligned horizontal and in a corner. Including grouping by task. Like BeOS does.
  • Allow fixed (constant) height of buttons when taskbar orientation is vertical and panel length is set to “full length”.
  • Option to control ordering of buttons, at least make buttons well-ordered.
• Options when a task should be visible in the taskbar.
  • Show only (or no) minimized tasks.
• Unhide the panel when a task becomes urgent in the taskbar.
• Quickly close a task with (for example) a middle mouse click.
• Option to enable hide/unhide or shade/unshade with the scroll wheel.
• Option to enable/disable icons in taskbar
• Option to toggle dimming of inactive icons Forum
• When they esten grouped several applications, to have of general menu system to unhide, hide, etc. Very util with applications like Gimp.
• Switching to the task on the left or on the right from the current one, and selecting first, second, …, tenth item in a taskbar (via keyboard - would need a new keyboard-event, like switching workspaces? Or maybe as a command, or a parameter to xftaskbar4 or sth?) (maybe also to up and to down if tasks span over more than one row)
• Changing order of items in a taskbar by moving current task left or right (or up or down) in the list (again, new keyboard-event or a command?) (hmm… just released that a task order is a vague thing…)
• Change icon size according to panel size. instead of a static 16×16 icon.

• Adapt icon size to the container panel size.
  • Not possible - the notification area has no idea what's in the notification icons, and there's no (reasonable) way to find out. –kelnos
    • A bit more fixed in trunk, the icon (socket window) is allocated to the available space. That's all we can do; the external application will then set an appropriate icon, whether this fills the entire space (audacious) or a sharp icon (GtkStatusIcon) is something we cannot control. –nick

• Add row/col option for icons in “Notification Area” , for vertical panel.
  • Trunk has an option to set the number of rows. Work for both horizontal and vertical panels. –nick

• Notify when new removable device is plugged/unplugged,network connected/disconnected, cable is plugged/unplugged.
  • Not a systray issue, should be done my a daemon that shows a status icon. For devices there already is xfce4-volstatus-icon. –nick

• Show the workspace number in the button.
• Option to show a task on this native workspace or on the current workspace (when showing tasks from multiple workspaces).
• Use middle click button.
  • Minimize the application.
  • Focus the window.
  • to close a window like a web tab
• Mouse Wheel on the icon box = Alt Tab
• Allow a window to popup when dragging a file in the iconbox, so it is possible to easily copy files from one thunar window to another one below. the same way the tasklist does.
• Enable compiz fusion minimize effects… although i don't know if its an xfce issue or compiz fusion one.
• Group icons from the same application. As in with Firefox, main window plus Downloads open is already two (and some web sites like to pop open a box), or if you are editing multiple documents in OpenOffice, etc. When clicking on an icon that has multiple windows, a box pops up giving the names of all open windows (in the style of Window List plugin).
• Merge launcher with icon box, allowing programs to be launched and minimized from icon box.
• Add the option to disable alpha of icons representing minimized windows.

• Allow to set the focus to a window in a nonactive workspace with a right mouse click on the symbolized window in the pager while staying on the active workspace (like the pager of fvwm2).
  • wouldn't this conflict with context-menues?
• Split workspace on multihead-systems so workspaces can be changed on each display individually.
• simple workspace identification (for example: editable letters, numbers or images in background/foreground or semi-transparent), which remains always visible. They are useful to remember keyboard short-cuts for each workspace or to separate applications which have no unique icon themselves)

• Tooltip that shows the number of new and total messages in the box (like wmbiff).
  • Why? The entire purpose of the plugin is to notify you of new mail. It's not a generic mailbox-info applet, and I have no intention of turning it into one. –kelnos
• IMAP and SSL (for IMAP and POP3) support.
  • This has always been supported. You need to compile with gnutls support.
• Also support for ssh port forwarding would be nice. –kelnos
  • How does this work? –kelnos
• Show Sender and Subject of new emails in the tooltip
• Allow fast email deletion (SPAM)
• Allow activation/deactivation of accounts (instead of having to delete and create them new)
• Have an item in the context menu to clear the error log. No need to look into the log when you know exactly why some updates failed (e.g. pulled network cable). Now that's 6 clicks! With context menu item you'd only have 2 (context open and “clear log”)

• Alternative way of setting the volume level. Current implementation isn't very user friendly when the panel size is small. A slider alternative like Gnome could be a solution.
  • A new plugin has been written and will be released with Xfce 4.6. At the moment it is for mouse wheel only but it also lets you click to start the real (and NEW) mixer. A version with a slider may follow. – Jannis
  • If anyone is impatient to get the slider back, feel free to compile: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-generic-slider
• The current volume control is not very nice, is it possible to make GUI more nice and user friendly? Please see this image: http://www.volny.cz/sisman/xfce4-mixer-1.png
  • A new mixer will be shipped with Xfce 4.6: Screenshot – Jannis
• Can add alternative channels like a KDE`s mixer plugin
• Can remove icon, just to show only bar to change volume
• Would be nice if it worked better with vertical panels – e.g. if the bar was horizontal, so it matched all the other applets like system load etc. Currently it doesn't look very nice with the massive icon and vertical bar.
• An global Equalizer would be great

For gods sake, please apply the micro patch from this almost 2 year old bug report

• Label tick to select the available space number as label, the hover label is removed in this case and if any label is set the mount point is not stated in the dialog
• Clicking the icon opens the disk at the specified mountpoint (double use) OR displays the space left label

• ship with static gnome libarys

• Ability to change the menu-icon-size (16x16px icons looks so ugly)
  • or display as default in 22 or 24px

• netgraph – Union between cpugraph and netload.

• Free Space monitor – Monitor showing a graphical representation of free space on mounted file systems. Also, the ability to mount & unmount file systems listed at /etc/fstab would be useful. Think of a small popup list of file systems with size info that can be mounted/unmounted by clicking on them.
  • The mount plugin can do parts of this request.
  • There is the free space checker plugin now.

• wmplugin – compatibility layer for Window Maker Dockapps to be added to the panel.
  • Danny has started working on this.
  • Andre has started too. (Plugin will be named xfce4-wmdock-plugin)
    • My first version of the plugin is done. You can find it here.

• Plugin for simulating (for example) media buttons.

• Plugin simulating old-style panel handlers
  • has been requested in bz #3360, is now available in separator plugin

• Xfce version of this
  • Here is a quick hack to get you started.
  • Nowadays it is better to follow the RandR protocol

• Bluetooth plugin

• Calculator plugin
  • Try at http://e01.homelinux.net/xfce4-calc-plugin/
  • Or http://personal.inet.fi/private/erikedelmann/xfce4-calculator-plugin.html

• Direcoty lister in menues, starting from '/', similar to 'Places'
  • Xfce Panel 4.7 comes with a directory menu plugin

• PDF printer (print to PDF file) plugin
  • Cups already allows this

• PickerColor plugin, just for take a color on screen with rgb, html and decimal values
  • Create a launcher for gcolor2.

• Network plugin like as Knemo.

• upkeep or fork of Xfce4 Panel Menu plugin. At the least, introduce a search box, as included with Ubuntu-System-Panel. I'm tired of trying to figure out whether the application I'm wanting is located under 'accessories' or 'system'.

• composite switch plugin like http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Toggle-Compositing?content=78299
  • Starting Xfce 4.6 it is possible to use the command line tool xfconf-query to toggle the embedded compositor on/off, just like xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/compositing -s [false|true]. You can write a little shell script that will first read the value (don't pass the -s option) to toggle it. You can than add a launcher to call that script.

• Fast xorg config-plugin for environment variables __GL_FSAA_MODE etc.(like the nvidia/ati config plugins on windoze)