plasma-hud VS gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

If you have troubles implementing the dbus method you can take a look to the source code of plasma-hud here. It's a python daemon that creates a dbus service that you can call to show a rofi menu. Theres a lot of stuff going on there, but the important bits are at the end of the script, starting from line 713.

KDE apps have this built in (ctrl+shift+i). I love it. For non-KDE apps on Plasma there is no native solution but a KRunner plugin and a [Plasma extension](https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud.

More screen for the app itself. I have Global Menu on my top panel with plasma-hud.

If you want a single solution then look for projects implementing a "HUD". For KDE Plasma there is this one: https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud, that is a fork of this for Ubuntu Mate: https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud. Hopefully you find something that suits your needs!

> Only using Qt apps on Linux is very hard.

There are even whole distris doing that… ;-)

https://kaosx.us/

I have hardly any GTK app installed and I would not know what I'm missing. (Firefox uses GTK but it has it's own UI anyway). Electron? That's the plague of modern times. Besides VSCode (which I will switch away in a blink as soon as the alternatives are ready) I don't use any Electron peep. Also here I would not know what I'm missing.

But of course, it's only me. YMMV

> Cmd+Shift+/ to search all menus is also super useful and I don't think you can do that on KDE.

Global menu is of course integrated in KDE. You can even use it form KRunner (of course with fuzzy search).

https://libreddit.northboot.xyz/r/kde/comments/r85jcz/tip_yo...

I think the idea of using a "HUD" in KDE is actually even older than the macOS feature.

https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud/

> If you don't think macOS can be configured then you are mistaken.

Apple products are made for the mass market. That's one of the reasons they actually follow the same philosophy as Gnome. What this means regarding options everybody knows I guess:

Options are hard to maintain and "confuse the user".

So Apple products are dumbed down even more with every release. (They even replace perfectly fine working software with "touch-ware" in the attempt to make everything more tailored to the causal users).

Thank you. Turns out I was just looking for a rofi-based HUD and found one here.

Yeah, this is because the feature is implemented into the apps and not on a system level. If you want that, there's this: https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud

And this for heads-up display (menu search on Alt): https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud

If you use Gnome as DE, you also have to install this Gnome extension for fcitx5 to work.

GNOME Extensions : quick-settings-tweaker, appindicator and KStatusNotifier, arcmenu, blur-my-shell, dash-to-panel, forge, gsconnect, just-perfection, show-desktop-button, space-bar, user-themes and vitals

I'm currently using 4 extensions.

system-monitor (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/). It is nice to see my CPU and memory usage at a glance with some history. I don't look too often but it can be good for understanding how builds are progressing, check that my software is utilizing parallelism well and see when things are in an infinite loop gobbling RAM.

Clipboard History (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4839/clipboard-histor...)

I can't live without a clipboard manager, this seems to do a decent job.

Bing Wallpaper (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1262/bing-wallpaper-c...)

I don't see my wallpaper often but when I open the menu or log in it is nice to have a new beautiful picture.

AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-supp...)

I like icons in my toolbar.

- Pop Shell for i3-like tiling (fuck stacking) _remove from store (?)_- Workspace indicator by open apps: I need to know what's in my dynamic workspaces, not just a simple indicator or number _little ad, developed by me_- AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support for tray icons (background apps)

Have you tried using this extension? that's the extension that pop os and ubuntu uses, for me it worked as expected with league on fedora

You need to install an extension like this one.

Use a different extension: AppIndicator an KStatusNotifierItem Support, conveniently packaged as gnome-shell-extension-appindicator.

it's this one. no idea if it's standard or I added it, this is a system that was upgraded from F34. but the microstutters were driving me nuts and disabling it fixed it for good. I've moved over to the Trayicons Reloaded extension, as I need the tray icons for various apps and this issue hadn't occurred since.

It is probably hidden in the tray that doesn't exist. You could use this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/