search

kotelnik / plasma-applet-active-window-control

Plasma 5 applet for controlling currently active window.
GNU General Public License v2.0
119 stars 18 forks source link

Feature Request: Middle click to lower active window #111

Open m-anand opened 6 years ago

m-anand commented 6 years ago

Middle control on the title bar to lower the window is achievable normally. Can a similar option be included in the mouse controls section?

kotelnik commented 6 years ago

I probably don't know what exactly lowering is. Middle clicking on window titlebar is doing nothing for me. Also I cannot find "lower" in context menu of the title bar (after right click). Is there an option somewhere to enable the lowering?

m-anand commented 6 years ago

Thank you for getting back to me on this. The option to lower a window is in Window Management>Window Behavior>Titlebar actions. I have set the middle button click on titlebar to the action 'lower'. It basically allows for quickly bringing up a window behind a maximized window when you need to, instead of hitting alt+tab. I found this to be a very useful feature in the Unity desktop. I believe if this feature can be implemented here, this would be the last thing any Unity user seeking refuge would need. I hope I was able to convey the meaning correctly.

kotelnik commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately it is not directly possible to "lower" a window from plasma widget. But I'll investigate ways to solve this. It will probably be just a matter of extending the interface provided by TaskManager.TaskModel object of Plasma.