Bug 483658

Summary:	Show relevant menus in Global Menu widget when desktop has focus
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Emir SARI <emir_sari>
Component:	Containment	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, mvourlakos, nate, niccolo, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481628
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Description Emir SARI 2024-03-15 12:45:19 UTC

See bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481628

Plasma Shell itself ought to work with some sort of available menus when there are no applications present. This is similar to how macOS Finder has always menus available when there are no open applications.

As an additional note, the application launcher should also work in unison with Plasma Shell. This includes transfer of focus from application launcher to application menus (when either one is open, they should continue being open), and disabling necessary tooltips in order not to obstruct the menu itself.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-03-18 18:04:50 UTC

> As an additional note
This seems like a separate request; please submit a new bug report for it.

Comment 2 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-10-26 14:14:57 UTC

Personally I'm not sold on this idea. I don't think there's any action that Plasma could provide that would make sense for a menubar: the few actions we should expose are in the context menu, and they'd make for a rather empty menubar. Some kwin actions *might* make sense (pending kwin mantainers opinions) but I don't think there's much we can / should do on the Plasma side of things.

I'll also add that if you want to add some specific things e.g. the ability to launch apps, it's easy to add that feature by creating a third party widget, but I don't think it makes sense to implement it in the first-party widget. I'm setting this to NEEDSINFO to see if anyone would like to convince me otherwise (it shouldn't be too hard to implement if we want to do this...).

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-10-27 17:41:41 UTC

I think it makes some sense. A "File" menu could contain all the stuff in the context menu for files and folders. There could be a "Desktop" menu containing all the stuff in the context menu for the desktop itself. And then if Bug 481628 gets done, that's a third top-level menu.