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Window title in the Application bar

Open matrixes opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

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

matrixes avatar Aug 31 '23 13:08 matrixes

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

  • Limited amount of space already occupied by other things.
  • Only one text line worth of height doesn't have enough space to show titles of multiple windows in one column.

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:

  • Add a hotkey to show just mini-map with titles separately from window switching.
  • Add "Show mini-map during window switching" toggle to detach mini-map from the process of switching. It can be annoying when you switch, but useful when you want to see where all the windows are.

KETHERCORTEX avatar Nov 04 '23 23:11 KETHERCORTEX

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.

jtaala avatar May 31 '24 23:05 jtaala