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alexankitty / FancyTasks

Make your plasma task manager widget pretty.
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Another indicator that could be made #8

Closed ziomek64 closed 2 years ago

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

So, we have different types of indicators: obraz Would it be possible to have dot indicator and when the window is in focus or maximized it is a dash or full sized even? I think this kind of think is on W11 and it's kinda cool

alexankitty commented 2 years ago

Yeah I can add it, Mind sending me a sketch of what you have in mind?

alexankitty commented 2 years ago

Also since it's your idea, you're welcome to give it a name as well.

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

Something like this: obraz As you see firefox dash is longer and the settings one is more like a dot. Sure, call it Ziomek style, just kidding. Call it Windows11 or W11

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

It would look cool if it had some animation of shrinking and expanding

alexankitty commented 2 years ago

I want to say plasma already has an animate everything approach but this should definitely be doable. Do you know if w11 has an indicator for multiple applications open?

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

Yes, someone made a screenshot for me lmao, I deleted windows. obraz So it's still single indicator but there's that depth underneath the whole card.

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

obraz this is with multiple instances but minimized

alexankitty commented 2 years ago

No worries. I'm not sure if I can emulate the depth effect with the way the indicator is designed, that would have to be something seperate. It should be theoretically possible to make it happen by duplicating a frame underneath and shifting it to the side along with shrinking the main frame. Things to think about at least but should belong in its own issue as an enhancement.

For planning this indicator we can do the following. The easiest method would be to use the dashes style, and add an option to enlarge (double or triple the indicator length setting) the indicator when active. The other option we would be able to set for everything and have the indicator desaturate partially or completely (maybe a percentage like I did for border radius) Though it could also be done as its own style, I feel it would be something that would want to be made available for all styles. Taking the above option we can make it work for metro and ciliora as well by having it shrink the first section of the indicator accordingly.

Let me know what you think of these ideas.

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

We could have dot or dash on single one and dash and multiple dots on multiple

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

That would stray a little from w11 but maybe it would be nice idk

alexankitty commented 2 years ago

Dashes is effectively both dot and dash, it just depends on the indicator length (I originally thought about a dot style too until I realized that was really the only difference) Ciliora could be used as a template and instead we could have a "dash ciliora"

4 is another thing I want to add so this would allow you either increase or decrease the number of dots that are displayed for further customizability. (I followed the way it was done for lattedock's version and they decided 2 for metro and 4 for everything else)

ziomek64 commented 2 years ago

@alexankitty did you add it? I don't seem to see anything, also that crash bug still exists. I update from AUR but no effect, i tried deleting and installing again, no effect