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cedricl

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

I'm releasing a new version of  windowck-plugin in collaboration with the original author Alessio Piccoli. Part of this code is based on GNOME Window Applets from  Andrej Belcijan.

It's main features are:

- Show the title and buttons of the maximized window on the panel.
- Allow window actions on buttons and title clicks (activate, (un)maximize, close).
- Allow window action menu on left button click.
- Title formatting options.
- xfwm4/unity theming support for buttons.

website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- … wck-plugin

Code is available here: https://github.com/cedl38/xfce4-windowck-plugin
windowck-plugin AUR Page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce … ck-plugin/

In addition I've made a patch for xfwm4 based on Viktor Semykin work.
AUR packages: xfwm4-titleless+ and xfwm4-titleless-dev (devel version).

Fell free to leave your feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

Last edited by cedricl (2014-04-02 18:32:50)

ewaller

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

cedricl,

A couple things.  First, you say "We".  Please elaborate.
Also, that picture is larger than permitted by our policy

Please convert that to a thumbnail photo with a click through to the full size picture.  This can be done by [ url=/url.of/big/pic][ img]url/of/thumbnail[ /img][ /url]
Either that, or if you do not want a thumbnail, just convert the img tags to url tags

Thanks

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nierro

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Registered: 2011-09-02

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

I've been using this for 3 weeks and i can say it really makes xfce4 user experience better.
In combination with xfwm4-titleless (from aur) it is really perfect!
Great piece of sw!

cedricl

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

cedricl,

A couple things.  First, you say "We".  Please elaborate.
Also, that picture is larger than permitted by our policy

I have considered your warning, sorry for that. I don’t usually post here.

nierro

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From: Milan, Italy

Registered: 2011-09-02

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

@cedricl: will your xfwm4 patch be accepted upstream, and becoming part of xfwm4.12?
I really hope so.

cedricl

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

I’ve sumitted patches for this on bugzilla topic "Undecorate on maximize"

@cedricl: will your xfwm4 patch be accepted upstream, and becoming part of xfwm4.12?
I really hope so.

I don’t know what is the process for adding new features  to xfce but there is probably a discution between maintainers before.
For now, I'll start follow the users feedback and fix issues. If there is enough interest and it follow project goals maybe it'll be integrated to xfce...

nierro

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Registered: 2011-09-02

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Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

I think mailing about your patch in xfce ML can be a good start. Here I guess: http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/ .
Good luck, i'll keep my fingers crossed

cedricl

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 16

Re: windowck-plugin - port of "Window Applets" for Xfce panel

hello everybody,

Good news: Titileless feature is now in xfce 4.12!!!

Last edited by cedricl (2015-03-21 18:53:28)