Spacer with Mouse gestures for the KDE Plasma Panel featuring Latte Dock/Gnome/Unity drag window gesture. Run any shortcut, command, application or URL/file with up to ten configurable mouse actions!

Demo

Screenshots

Current and planned features

• [X] Mouse actions
  • [x] Single click
  • [x] Double click
  • [x] Middle click
  • [x] Mouse wheel up/down
    • [ ] Min wheel steps
  • [x] Mouse drag (four axis)
    • [ ] Min track distance
  • [x] Long press
    • [ ] Hold duration
• [x] Actions
  • [x] Run any keyboard shortcut (detects all available shortcuts in System Settings > Shortcuts)
  • [x] Run custom commands
  • [x] Launch Applications/Urls/Files
• [ ] Sync configuration across widget instances
• [ ] Quick disable/reset defaults
• [ ] Popup/Notification showing shortcut being run
• [x] Panel visual feedback

Installing

[!IMPORTANT] Development has switched to Plasma 6, PRs to backport changes to Plasma 5 version are welcomed

• Plasma 5 version v1.4.0

• Plasma 6

1. Right click on the Panel > Add Widgets > Get New Widgets > Download New Plasma Widgets
2. Search for "Panel Spacer Extended", install and add to your panel(s).
3. Click on Add new videos pick your video(s) and apply.

Manual install

• Install dependencies (please let me know if I missed something)

    cmake extra-cmake-modules plasma-framework kdeplasma-addons
  

• Install the plasmoid

  ./install.sh
  

How does it work?

1. Runs qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/$COMPONENT org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.invokeShortcut "ACTION NAME" for shortcuts
2. App/URL/File actions depend on kdeplasma-addons

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Credits & Resources

• Based on (but not forked from) plasma-workspace/applets/panelspacer
• plasma-active-window-control
• plasmoid-spacer-as-pager for the changes that eliminated the need of compiled C++ plugin
• kdeplasma-addons/applets/quicklaunch for the implementation of the Application Chooser and Launcher this project makes use of
• jinliu/kdotool for loading and reading KWin script output inspiration