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plugins_wish_list [2013/09/18 15:07] – [Notification Area] rows3plugins_wish_list [2014/11/15 16:35] – [Taskbar] poypoy
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   * Include a "Show label instead of icon" option in the properties dialog, like the Launcher plugin has, so people can call it "Places" to mimick the look and feel of Gnome 2.    * Include a "Show label instead of icon" option in the properties dialog, like the Launcher plugin has, so people can call it "Places" to mimick the look and feel of Gnome 2. 
   * Merge functionalities from Places Plugin: removable media, recent files, and maybe search (search current directory?). It would make it the perfect plugin!   * Merge functionalities from Places Plugin: removable media, recent files, and maybe search (search current directory?). It would make it the perfect plugin!
 +  * modify filtering function to implement -filter to remove from the menu list, ex i dont want to display all subdirs of the base dir so having a filter like -somedirname would be useful
 ===== Launcher ===== ===== Launcher =====
   * <del>Set launcher properties with DBus. This way you can change the icon with a monitoring script.</del>   * <del>Set launcher properties with DBus. This way you can change the icon with a monitoring script.</del>
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     * Not something the panel can control.     * Not something the panel can control.
   * Enable the Launcher to display Icon AND Text   * Enable the Launcher to display Icon AND Text
 +  * Ability to set custom keyboard shortcuts for each item in a multi launcher by e. g. setting its label to "&Webbrowser" (then w is the shortcut)
 +  * Make adding the first program to a launcher more user friendly. Currently clicking a new Launcher does nothing; it instead automatically open the application picker dialog. Editing existing Launchers should not be changed.
 ===== Taskbar ===== ===== Taskbar =====
   * Add sorting order option "manually" to window buttons to be able to sort buttons also by drag&drop like before 4.8 !   * Add sorting order option "manually" to window buttons to be able to sort buttons also by drag&drop like before 4.8 !
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   * Change icon size according to panel size. instead of a static 16x16 icon.   * 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/maximized windows. If it were possible, to make the Label apear instantly on hovering, it would be a nice expierience to watch them popping up and colapsing again, one by one, and you won’t have to wait for tooltip showing up to get the windows titleinfo - - Usefull for small screens and/or portrait view, especially on tablets & convertibles   * Add an option to display inactive and/or minimized windows as icon only, while showing the label only for active and/or normal/maximized windows. If it were possible, to make the Label apear instantly on hovering, it would be a nice expierience to watch them popping up and colapsing again, one by one, and you won’t have to wait for tooltip showing up to get the windows titleinfo - - Usefull for small screens and/or portrait view, especially on tablets & convertibles
 +  * Filtering: Show (only) windows from workspace [#] This would allow multiple panels/taskbars to correspond to the side of the screen they are on and another workspace is relative to, so you always know where your other windows are.
 ===== Notification Area ===== ===== Notification Area =====
   * <del>Adapt icon size to the container panel size.</del>   * <del>Adapt icon size to the container panel size.</del>
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   * An global Equalizer would be great   * An global Equalizer would be great
   * Single-click mute would be fabulous, or even a fast double-click.   * Single-click mute would be fabulous, or even a fast double-click.
 +  * Scrolling the mouse wheel should change the volume when the control is clicked (and the blue volume bar is visible)
 +  * Right-click menu could have a quick option for toggling the default audio device. This is useful for switching between speakers & headphones
 +  * Ability to add multiple audio mixer controls to the panel, to quickly control volumes for multiple audio devices
 ===== Performance Monitor ===== ===== Performance Monitor =====
  
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   * <del>Ability to change the menu-icon-size (16x16px icons looks so ugly)</del> -- fixed in 4.8 with the panel-applications-menu style property.   * <del>Ability to change the menu-icon-size (16x16px icons looks so ugly)</del> -- fixed in 4.8 with the panel-applications-menu style property.
      *or display as default in 22 or 24px      *or display as default in 22 or 24px
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   * Context menu to add, edit, remove menu items.   * Context menu to add, edit, remove menu items.
   * Drag and drop between menu, panels, and Thunar.   * Drag and drop between menu, panels, and Thunar.
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   * 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-*.   * 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-*.
 +    * [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10451|Bug 10451]]
 ===== Keyboard layout chooser ===== ===== 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 "lv3:*" ) which is required for keyboards that have more than one shift state. Setting it using setxkbmap is similar to the other options. The layout switchers in both KDE and GNOME support graphical interfaces to choose the third level key.\   * The current keyboard layout chooser allows you to select a compose key, but not a third level chooser (the xkb options beginning "lv3:*" ) which is required for keyboards that have more than one shift state. Setting it using setxkbmap is similar to the other options. The layout switchers in both KDE and GNOME support graphical interfaces to choose the third level key.\
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     * has been requested in [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3360|bz #3360]], is now available in separator plugin     * has been requested in [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3360|bz #3360]], is now available in separator plugin
  
-  * Xfce version of [[http://www.gnome.org/~robsta/m3applet.html|this]] +  * **None** of the following links work. Could someone provide new, working links, as well as a short description? 
-    * [[http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/xfce4-m3mirror-plugin-0.0.1.tar.bz2|Here]] is a quick hack to get you started. +    * Xfce version of [[http://www.gnome.org/~robsta/m3applet.html|this]] 
-    * Nowadays it is better to follow the [[http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/proto/randrproto.git;f=randrproto.txt;a=blob|RandR protocol]]+      * [[http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/xfce4-m3mirror-plugin-0.0.1.tar.bz2|Here]] is a quick hack to get you started. 
 +      * Nowadays it is better to follow the [[http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/proto/randrproto.git;f=randrproto.txt;a=blob|RandR protocol]]
  
   * Bluetooth plugin   * Bluetooth plugin
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   * Force-quit application plugin, like the one featured in GNOME 2.x.   * Force-quit application plugin, like the one featured in GNOME 2.x.
  
-  * Manage to port the [[http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=103732|GNOME Window Applet]] to Xfce in order to get the window buttons into the panel and removing the title bar with maximus apps.+  * <del>Manage to port the [[http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=103732|GNOME Window Applet]] to Xfce in order to get the window buttons into the panel and removing the title bar with maximus apps.</del> 
 +    * The new [[http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-windowck-plugin|xfce4-windowck-plugin]] have implemented this feature.