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Window title in the Application bar #593

Open matrixes opened 1 year ago

matrixes commented 1 year ago

The application bar is useful to get a quick glance on roughly how many applications are occupying a workspace and where I currently am located in relation to the other applications. But, I'd also like to know where a specific application within a workspace is located, which is why I'm suggesting printing the title of the application int the bar as well

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Describe the solution you'd like

Put the title of an application in the Application bar

Describe alternatives you've considered

None so far

KETHERCORTEX commented 11 months ago

I see a few problems with the proposed solution (window titles in the top bar):

To see the position of windows there's already a mini-map that is shown during the switching with keyboard (Super + arrows or Super + , or .) if "Mini-map scale (%)" in extension settings is greater than 0. It doesn't disappear from the screen as long as you hold Super. It shows only the title of an active window though.

I think better solution would be:

jtaala commented 4 months ago

I don't see how this would work well given the topbar and transparency (e.g. titles would be on top of topbar etc.).

I wouldn't implement this but would be open to PRs from others that this might interest.