Wishlist item: Make the Window list widget hover active so you do not have to click on it.
Can you clarify whether you're talking about the widget literally named "Window List"? And would you mind explaining the use case?
Hi Nate, Sure, I can clarify. The Window List widget is somewhat hover active now, but only in the sense that when you hover your mouse pointer over it, it lights up and displays: "Window List" and "Show open windows in a menu" This is very functional and my preferred task manager. But, I could see a small tweak to it where when you hover the mouse pointer over it, it pops up with a menu of the list of actual windows that are open, instead of having to click on it first. For example right now I have two Firefox windows open, the Thunderbird app, and the Thunderbird write function all which show up in a detailed description when I click on the Window List. What I am proposing is just to have that list appear when you hover the mouse on it. Cheers, Doug On 4/14/23 16:24, Nate Graham wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468509 > > Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO > CC| |nate@kde.org, > | |uhhadd@gmail.com > Component|general |Window List > Assignee|unassigned-bugs@kde.org |plasma-bugs@kde.org > Status|REPORTED |NEEDSINFO > Version|unspecified |master > Product|kde |plasmashell > Target Milestone|--- |1.0 > > --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> --- > Can you clarify whether you're talking about the widget literally named "Window > List"? > > And would you mind explaining the use case? >
Thanks.
Created attachment 158166 [details] attachment-3702539-0.html Duly noted! Thanks. On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:42 AM Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468509 > > Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|NEEDSINFO |CONFIRMED > Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |--- > Ever confirmed|0 |1 > Summary|Make Window List Widget |Option to make Window List > |Hover active |show popup on hover, > rather > | |than click > > --- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> --- > Thanks. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3318
Git commit 156c716e47828a085cc3d7d8b655520912f6ea02 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Shubham Arora. Committed on 25/11/2025 at 18:52. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/window-list: add feature to open on hover FIXED-IN: 6.6.0 M +56 -0 applets/window-list/ConfigGeneral.qml M +22 -1 applets/window-list/MenuButton.qml M +8 -0 applets/window-list/main.xml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/156c716e47828a085cc3d7d8b655520912f6ea02