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+ | ====== Plugins wish list ====== | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | ===== Global ideas ===== | ||
+ | * Merge the ' | ||
+ | * A new plugin should be created aside existing plugins, so users can still depend on simple plugins that do one thing or install the new plugin that does everything. -- mike | ||
+ | * Alex has started to work on this (May 2012) | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Put Dictionary plugin (like gnome dictionary). And if it's possible possibility of traduction of single words. | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * 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/ | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Allow plugins to be run in the notification area, so they can be used with other panels, like tint2. (e.g. plugins: clipman & notes) | ||
+ | * xfce4-weather-plugin and xfce4-datetime-plugin (possibly others) only display in black font. When panel color is a dark color or transparent with a dark wallpaper the font is unreadable. | ||
+ | * That's a good idea! But, for the time being, you can have something like that in your gtk theme file: | ||
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+ | style " | ||
+ | { | ||
+ | fg[NORMAL] = "# | ||
+ | } | ||
+ | widget " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Directory Menu ===== | ||
+ | * Include a "Show label instead of icon" option in the properties dialog, like the Launcher plugin has, so people can call it " | ||
+ | * Merge functionalities from Places Plugin: removable media, recent files, and maybe search (search current directory? | ||
+ | ===== Launcher ===== | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Not very user friendly to implement, when you have multiple launchers. | ||
+ | * Looking for something like this: http:// | ||
+ | * Fixed in 4.8, where each launcher item has a desktop file that is monitored. | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * 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). | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Fixed in 4.6 with the "arrow button position" | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Not something for the launcher, but a plugin-container plugin. | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Not something the panel can control. | ||
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+ | ===== Taskbar ===== | ||
+ | * Add sorting order option " | ||
+ | * 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 [[http:// | ||
+ | * 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 for close Buttons on every Task? (most Laptop touchpads don’t have a middle button, and emulation dosn’t work well either) | ||
+ | * Option to enable hide/unhide or shade/ | ||
+ | - particularly with Logitech' | ||
+ | * Option to enable/ | ||
+ | * Option to toggle dimming of inactive icons [[http:// | ||
+ | * When they esten grouped several applications, | ||
+ | * 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, | ||
+ | * 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 16x16 icon. | ||
+ | * Add an option to display inactive and/or minimized windows as icon only, while showing the label only for active and/or normal/ | ||
+ | ===== Notification Area ===== | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Not possible - the notification area has no idea what's in the notification icons, and there' | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
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+ | * < | ||
+ | * Trunk has an option to set the number of rows. Work for both horizontal and vertical panels. --nick | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Not a systray issue, should be done my a daemon that shows a status icon. For devices there already is [[http:// | ||
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+ | * Make other panel-plugins dockable like volume-manager or clock(would be great to have one frame around all) | ||
+ | * Only show icons for applications on the current workspace. | ||
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+ | ===== Icon Box ===== | ||
+ | * 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 to close a window like a web tab and maybe add an optional close button on the current task. | ||
+ | * Mouse Wheel on the icon box to cycle through windows (= Alt-Tab) | ||
+ | * Allow a window to be brought to the foreground by dragging a text selection, link, image, or file to the target window' | ||
+ | * Option to group together window icons from the same application, | ||
+ | * Option to reverse the order in which icons are added to the iconbox (top-to-bottom vs. bottom-to-top, | ||
+ | * Merge launcher with icon box, allowing programs to be launched, minimized, and focused from a single icon in the icon box. | ||
+ | * Add the option to disable alpha of icons representing minimized windows. | ||
+ | * Enable compiz fusion minimize effects... although i don't know if its an xfce issue or compiz fusion one. | ||
+ | * Enable compiz fusion window previews. Since two windows from the same application have the same icon, this can tell them apart | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Pager ===== | ||
+ | * 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). | ||
+ | | ||
+ | * 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/ | ||
+ | * Allow to show only the name of the current workspace (like in fluxbox) so it doesn' | ||
+ | * Add an option to have the pager not wrap when changing workspaces with CTRL+ALT+arrow so I can quickly get to any workspace without knowing my current workspace. E.g. I have a 3x3 grid of workspaces and I like to be able to do two CTRL+ALT+left and then two CTRL+ALT+up to know I am in the upper-left workspace without regard to where I started. | ||
+ | | ||
+ | ===== Mail Watcher ===== | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * This has always been supported. | ||
+ | * 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/ | ||
+ | * 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") | ||
+ | * Hide icon when there are no new messages; show icon only when there are new messages. Could function similar to notifications of new updates. When there aren't new messages, the icon serves no purpose. | ||
+ | ===== Volume control ===== | ||
+ | * 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:// | ||
+ | * The current volume control is not very nice, is it possible to make GUI more nice and user friendly? Please see this image: http:// | ||
+ | * A new mixer will be shipped with Xfce 4.6: [[http:// | ||
+ | * 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' | ||
+ | * An global Equalizer would be great | ||
+ | * Single-click mute would be fabulous, or even a fast double-click. | ||
+ | ===== Performance Monitor ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | For gods sake, please apply the micro patch from [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Free Space Checker ===== | ||
+ | * 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 | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Xfapplet ===== | ||
+ | * ship with static gnome libarys | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== XFCE-Menu ===== | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | *or display as default in 22 or 24px | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Context menu to add, edit, remove menu items. | ||
+ | * Drag and drop between menu, panels, and Thunar. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * xfce4-toggle-applicationsmenu script that could be mapped to a keyboard key to popup/hide the menu. Currently, xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu can be mapped to a key, but the menu needs to be closed using Esc key. Same wish applies to all xfce4-popup-*. | ||
+ | ===== Keyboard layout chooser ===== | ||
+ | * The current keyboard layout chooser allows you to select a compose key, but not a third level chooser (the xkb options beginning " | ||
+ | * Swap caps and ctrl. (or caps to extra ctrl (no swap). or caps to extra esc.) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== New Plugins ===== | ||
+ | * '' | ||
+ | * Alex has started working on this (May 2012). | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * The [[http:// | ||
+ | * There is the free space checker plugin now. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * 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 [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Plugin for simulating (for example) media buttons. | ||
+ | * Do you mean MPRIS client as panel plugin? Because it sounds great and better than [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * has been requested in [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Xfce version of [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * Nowadays it is better to follow the [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Bluetooth plugin | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Try at http:// | ||
+ | * Or http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Xfce Panel 4.7 comes with a directory menu plugin | ||
+ | |||
+ | * PDF printer (print to PDF file) plugin | ||
+ | * Cups already allows this | ||
+ | |||
+ | * < | ||
+ | * Create a launcher for '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | * Network plugin like as Knemo. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | * upkeep or fork of [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | * composite switch plugin like http:// | ||
+ | * Starting Xfce 4.6 it is possible to use the command line tool xfconf-query to toggle the embedded compositor on/off, just like '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | * Fast xorg config-plugin for environment variables __GL_FSAA_MODE etc.(like the nvidia/ati config plugins on windoze) | ||
+ | |||
+ | * An item for the panel to indicate Caps Lock and Num Lock status. LXDE has one and it is very helpful on laptops and USB keyboards that no longer have the leds. | ||
+ | * If orage could have synchronization with google calendar it would be great | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Force-quit application plugin, like the one featured in GNOME 2.x. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Manage to port the [[http:// |