https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435706
Bug ID: 435706
Summary: Allow applications to draw content in the KWin
titlebar
Product: kwin
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: sonichedgehog_hyperblas...@yahoo.com
Target Milestone: ---
This suggestion kicked off after recently dealing with Client-Side-Decorations
in GTK3 applications and having to install a patch called GTK3-noCSD. It's
additionally relevant now that KDE just implemented what it calls the hamburger
menu, which seems like a step in the right direction.
I feel it's legitimate to ask whether the time has come to support applications
being allowed to draw menu / tab / toolbar items directly in the KWin titlebar.
This is one of the few features of modern desktops KDE doesn't yet offer, with
Gnome being a common example of it: It allows applications to draw special
items right in place of the window title, which can host tabs or search fields
or backward / forward buttons or anything else. I'd also reference the many
Chromium / Firefox KDE users who've been dreaming for years about having the
ability to make their browser tabs show up in the window titlebar for extra
space.
https://i.imgur.com/M2LlXiB.png
I'm not sure how such a system would work under the hood, though I do know some
of the basics have already been done; We have the Application Menu titlebar
button, which allows putting the menu bar of Qt and GTK applications in a
button or even a plasma widget... we could thus start by offering the option to
draw the titlebar on the KWin decoration. If we're talking more complex widgets
then it may be a different story: Applications need a way to tell KWin they
want it to draw things like a search field or custom button in the titlebar,
which may require changes to how Qt and GTK decorations communicate to window
managers to request drawing application content. Such a framework should
already exist: I'd once more point to the Firefox browser which knows to tell a
compatible window manager that it wants its tabs drawn in the title bar.
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