Tiled Menu
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Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/zren/plasma-applet-tiledmenu
A menu based on Windows 10's Start Menu.
v20+ requires Plasma 5.12+
Supports:
* Pin/Favourite apps/files through the context menu (or by dragging them from dolphin).
* Resizing (permanently) the size of the menu by Alt + Right Clicking and dragging.
* Any size tile 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 4x2, 1x3, etc.
* Easily edit the background image of a tile.
* Customizable sidebar shortcuts.
* Jump to Letter/Category (can also default to this view)
* Defaulting to only showing the tiles.
* Labeling Groups of Tiles + Move Groups of Tiles + Sorting items in the group
Does not support (Win10):
* Tile Groups ("Folders")
Install Translations: German, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Russian, European Portuguese
Translators: Fill out https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-tiledmenu/blob/master/package/translate/template.pot, paste into https://www.hastebin.com/ and comment with the link.
v31 - October 24 2019 1 month ago
* Configurable sidebar width and icon size. Default sidebar is smaller. Popup buttons have a hover outline. Popup appears above, like other context menus and Win10.
* Close menu right away when launching app via search, instead of waiting for the app to steal focus before closing.
* Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #46)
* Update Portuguese (Portugal) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #47)
* Add Croatian translation by @VladimirMikulic (Pull Request #50)
v31 - October 24 2019 1 month ago
* Configurable sidebar width and icon size. Default sidebar is smaller. Popup buttons have a hover outline. Popup appears above, like other context menus and Win10.
* Close menu right away when launching app via search, instead of waiting for the app to steal focus before closing.
* Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #46)
* Update Portuguese (Portugal) translation by @herzenschein (Pull Request #47)
* Add Croatian translation by @VladimirMikulic (Pull Request #50)
v30 - April 4 2019 8 months ago
* Fix sidebar menus not resizing to fix translated text (Issue #37).
* Add support for a 2x1 Lutris game tile preset.
* Don't "download" the linked file associated with a tile when opening the tile editor unless it's a `*.desktop` file.
* Fix weird drag origins when moving tiles.
v29 - February 28 2019 9 months ago
* Make sure the AppList area (and TileEditor) is visible when opened from TilesOnly view, and return to TilesOnly view when TileEditor is closed.
* Fix the "desktop theme" search view being slightly visible in TilesOnly view (Issue #40)
* Fix double "Keyboard Shortcut" tab in Plasma 5.15
v28 - January 28 2019 10 months ago
* Add Indonesian translations by @ardumpl (Issue #34)
* Updated Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #36)
* You can now easily import/export a tile layout (Issue #19).
* Can be configured to start in "Tiles Only" mode, revealing the app list after a search.
* The "menu" button showing all the labels has been removed, since you can now hover a button and instantly see the tooltip.
* The "Apps" sidebar tooltip now shows "Alphabetically".
* Sorting Apps Alphabetically and Categorically now have use a bundled icon that better represents them. The icons (including Tiles Only) are highlighted when they are "selected".
* Failed attempt at cancelling a drag event that starts after an app is launched.
v27 - January 5 2019 10 months ago
* Add Korean translations by @crazyraven (Pull Request #31)
* Updated Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #32)
* Add ability to set the number of recent apps (Max=15).
* Show the sidebar item label in a tooltip when hovering it.
v26 - December 10 2018 11 months ago
* Default to "Most Used" apps instead of "Most Recent" which can be changed back in the config.
* Add ability to move all tiles below a group label when a label is moved.
* Add ability to sort all tiles by name in a tile group.
* Add a tile preset selector for steam game launchers.
* Add a grid column spinbox in the config just in case the user does not notice they can resize with Alt+RightClick.
* Hide the default Global Shortcut config tab, and replace it with a tab mentioning you need `Alt+F1` set for just pressing the `Meta` key to work.
v25 - November 16 2018 1 year ago
* Update Dutch translations by @Vistaus (Pull Request #23)
* Add Russian translations by @Niksn404 (Pull Request #25)
* Add European Portuguese translations by @nyxerys (Pull Request #26)
* Scale config section rectangles by the dpi.
* Hide tooltip when hovering the panel icon.
* Add 4px spacing between sidebar and app list.
* Hardcode Oxygen theme tile color to 12.5% transparent white.
v24 - September 22 2018 1 year ago
* Hide the solid sidebar background color. "Desktop theme" styled sidebars remain the same.
* Add Jump to Letter/Category views when clicking the section header.
* Add ability to start in Jump To Letter/Category view when menu opens.
* Fix a binding loop when drawing tile labels which caused a line of text to overflow the bottom of the tile (Issue #11).
* Group apps starting with symbols/punctuation under '&'.
v23 - August 2 2018 1 year ago
* Added Dutch translation by @Vistaus (Pull Request #15)
* Fix non-default font size causing issues in app list (Issue #7)
* Fix a number of deprecation warnings logged in Qt 5.11.
* Make sure the panel icon should be smooth.
* Focus on searchField when a sidebar menu closes.
* Fix icon sizes in the search filter view.
v22 - May 15 2018 1 year ago
* Fix error when loading in Kubuntu 18.04 LiveCD. We now lazy load qml-module-qt-labs-platform which was used to retrieve the translated xdg folder names.
* Merge updated Chinese translations by https://github.com/lm789632
## v21 - May 10 2018
* Fix error when opening the config with Qt 5.9 / Kubuntu 18.04.
## v20 - May 9 2018
* Add ability to edit the sidebar shortcuts in the config. By default, only System Settings, Dolphin, ~/Pictures, and ~/Documents is visible. You can drop apps/folders onto the sidebar to add it, though you'll need to open the config to delete it.
* Use a "hover outline" effect for the app list, utilizing several lazy loading tricks to load the list faster. An option to use the Desktop Theme buttons will return in a later version.
* Add option to set the default app list order to "Categories" for when you first login.
* Remember tile drag offset. When you click the bottom right of a tile and drag, the cursor will drop the bottom right of the tile instead of the top left.
* Don't allow creating new groups when tiles are locked.
* Hide "Pin to Menu" and "Edit Tile" items when tiles are locked.
* Add a "Alt+RightClick" to resize hint to the bottom right when widget is in a top panel.
* Add drop shadow to the "power" and "switch user" sidebar submenues.
v19 - April 1 2018 1 year ago
* Disable push effect when right clicking a tile.
* Add a radial hover effect similar to fluent design.
* Add "group" tile to quickly label a group of tiles. No other features are implmented yet (like moving all tiles in the group or "folders"). Right click the empty grid to add a "group" label.
* Support locking tiles so you don't accidentally drag them. Right click the empty grid > (un)lock tiles.
* Fix tileLabelAlignment, it never got reimplemented after the refactor.
v18 - September 25 2017 2 years ago
* Fix tiles not launching unless we open and close the tile editor.
v17 - September 13 2017 2 years ago
* Various fixes to make the menu faster to open (from a cold start).
* Lazy load the tile editor GUI for performance reasons.
* Add button to open the icon selector dialog to the tile editor.
* Configurable search field height.
* Spanish translations by Zipristin.
* Used a fixed panel icon by default, using the same icon size as the other icons in the panel.
* Support reseting a tile bg color to default by deleting the hex color text.
v16 - June 5 2017 2 years ago
* Can now set a background image on a tile.
* Can edit the margins around the tiles.
* Apps in search now show their description instead the filepath to the shortcut.
* Hide the description if it's the same as the app name.
* Fix a few tile drag glitches when the drag leaves the grid.
* Only remove the right clicked tile when unpining if there are multiple tiles for an app.
v15 - May 31 2017 2 years ago
* Resets tiles. There is no migration path. Sorry.
* Tiles can now be placed on an actual grid, rather than a list of tiles that looks like one.
* Can now edit the icon, individual tile color, and set the size to anything. Can toggle the icon/text.
* 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, etc tiles are in a "list" style with the icon to the left of the label.
* Resets the menu width/height of the popup to default.
* You can now set the width of the app list.
* Added option to do a fullscreen popup.
* Rough implementation of filter dropdown menu in the search results.
* Updated zh_CN translations.
* Open the localized version of ~/Music (eg: ~/Musik).
v13 - February 6 2017 2 years ago
* Only support Plasma 5.9+
* Disable the calculator runner in the search. It crashes plasmashell under a certain condition (opening the context menu then searching for anything).
* Add ability to edit the text in tiles. Changing the size of the tile is still a work in progress.
* Add sidebar buttons to open ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Videos have been added depending on how much vertical space there is available. In the future, they will not appear by default and need to be configured in the settings once the UI has been drawn up.
* Replace the sidebar search button (which was fairly useless) with a button to list apps by category. Switching between A-Z and category view is a bit slow atm.
* Follow the default menu widget's (kicker) app list loading pattern.
v12 - January 13 2017 2 years ago
* Support Plasma 5.9
* Break compatibility with Plasma 5.8 and below.
v11 - January 13 2017 2 years ago
* Misc work on locale install scripts. Use kreadconfig5 which should be preinstalled.
* Add german translation by rumangerst.
* Lay groundwork for future features: reversing search results (align to bottom), category view, and moving the searchbox to the top.
v10 - December 30 2016 2 years ago
* Chinese translations by https://github.com/lm789632
* Optimize updating the recent app list so it doesn't lag opening the menu.
* Clicking the user icon will now open a submenu with user manager/lock/logout/change user similar to Win10.
KDE 5.5 3 years ago
* This is the only version which is compatible with KDE 5.5.5 (Tested on Kubuntu 16.04 LiveCD)
* This will not receive any updates.
Can't use Plasma without this...
This is the menu I've been looking for. Awesome work!
9 excellent
10 the best
10 the best
10 the best
10 the best
10 the best
missing rightclick sendto desktop. needs to be fixed, otherwise i love it.
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+Funciona bien c:
+Awesome!
+Very Good!!
KDE had only one week spot and it was a launcher. Neither original, neither simple menu or others could compare with start menu usability and looking.
I tried Tiled menu some time before, but it didn't look right at the moment. I'm impressed how things changed now. After several years of very simple use of Simple menu i'm now a fan of this launcher.
+ Fantastic Menu. It's my new daily driver since a bunch of weeks and I actually just registered to give you my feedback.
I think it's sane to leave the following here instead of a github "issue":
FR1: The width of (or space between) the leftmost icon bar and the apps/folders list should be configurable somehow. If I pick a custom color it will overlap the folders list a little (env: default kubuntu 1810);
FR2: (Could be too big, sry): Allow more content types to be used as tile "images". Sorted from awesome to most aweseome: gif, mp4, markdown, html, html(with js);
That said, if you deny both FR's I will still stick to this menu for my daily driver. Fantastic work!
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+Most customizable app menu yet. And easy to use interface
feature request: option to expand/collapse categories similar to folders in file managers
Works great, it's even better than the windows10's start menu.
Base: 4 x 5.0 Ratings
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Tiled Menu is part of KDE Themes and Content, which is supported by the following people:
Other Plasma 5 Menus:
mmastriani
2 months ago
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Zren
2 months ago
Change:
Layout.minimumWidth: {
...
case PlasmaCore.Types.Horizontal:
return height;
To:
Layout.minimumWidth: {
...
case PlasmaCore.Types.Horizontal:
return 50 * units.devicePixelRatio;
Then restart plasmashell by logging out and back in or by running:
killall plasmashell; kstart5 plasmashell
Adjust 50 to something smaller if you want.
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mmastriani
2 months ago
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Zren
2 months ago
Here's what it looks like with my previous instructions. Notice how the button is about ~48px wide? That's because it's limited by the "System Settings > Icons > Configure Icon Size > Panel" size. It's more noticeable in my screenshot since my panel is only 30px tall so the icon is scaled down to ~24px.
https://i.imgur.com/AqLbPzE.png
Here's what it looks like when I delete Layout.maximumWidth:
https://i.imgur.com/i9RIKfY.png
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mmastriani
2 months ago
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ENiGMAXG2
3 months ago
This is how it looks: https://imgur.com/8TPLm2i
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Zren
3 months ago
A workaround would be to widen the app list when editing the tiles, but that's cumbersome.
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meriano
3 months ago
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4 months ago
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palacio
4 months ago
I particularly like the updated sidebar and logout/poweroff submenu looks very much.
https://i.redd.it/3kj3mpcxakb31.png
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Zren
4 months ago
* Uses 'system-file-manager-symbolic' instead of 'folder-open-symbolic' for dolphin in the sidebar. Breeze does not have that symbolic icon, so it uses "system-file-manager" instead, which is the blue dolphin icon. You would need to use his icon theme to get that look.
* Uses 'configure-symbolic' instead of 'configure' for systemsettings in the sidebar. This is a gray icon in the default "Breeze" icon set, and will look ugly for most users unless they use his icon theme. The breeze icon needs fixing as it doesn't appear to follow the color scheme, which is a bug in breeze I think.
* Places the logout/power submenus above the buttons instead of on the side. Since it no longer needs to be the same height as the sidebar icons to look good, the height of the submenu items is shorter. The submenu popup also has top/bottom padding. The compact nature means the mouse has to travel less, making it more usable.
I may implement the submenu stuff, since it's more usable than it is currently. I rarely use the power button so I haven't been eating that dog food enough to be annoyed enough to change it.
I could ship and hardcode the symbolic system settings + dolphin icons I guess...
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Other stuff:
* Removes the tile grid.
* Removes the "hover outline effect".
* Removes the ability to show category view, replacing the alphabetical view icon with the windows icon.
* Removed the default "windows white" search box theme, forcing it to use the "plasma desktop theme" style text field.
* Removed the panUp animation when you start a search. I could make the animation optional i guess.
* Forces the panel icon to be very large (same size as the sidebar icons) which may be larger than panel can support. Looks great when you have a thick panel though.
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Tile Background Color
He's planning to have the icon bg color manually configured by the user, like my tile editor. Not knocking it, but ideally this would be automatically generated, with the option to manually override the color.
https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applet-tiledmenu/issues/33
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palacio
4 months ago
There's also the item highlight change which colors the entire background but that may not play nicely with your tiles.
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Zren
4 months ago
Simple10 uses 50px sidebar button area, with 16px icons (17px padding).
It would be trivial to make those sizes configurable to the user. I do remember measuring a 50px wide sidebar on one Windows PC, so MS might have change the size.
He uses desktop theme svgs for button highlights, where as I tried to emulate the hover effects and animations. I never did get around to adding the hover effect to the sidebar though.
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fauzie811
4 months ago
Btw, that automatic tile coloring is interesting.
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rushic24
4 months ago
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Zren
4 months ago
Have you tried changing the Search Box theme in Tiled Menu's settings from the default "Windows (White)" to your "Desktop Theme" search box theme?
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Zren
4 months ago
https://userbase.kde.org/LatteDock/FAQ#Can_I_use_my_super_key_to_open_the_app_launcher.3F
I'm not sure if Latte needs this, but open Tiled Menu's settings and make sure it has a Keyboard Shortcut like Alt+F1. Plasmashell needs a shortcut set, but I'm not 100% sure Latte does.
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palacio
4 months ago
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5 months ago
OS: Arch Linux
Plasma Version: 5.16.2
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6 months ago
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