Make WingPanel expandeble to show hidden widgets
My idea was to grab WingPanel with your mouse and drag it down to expand it (like the Android statusbar) and show some widgets ( I would call them Wings ), like a system monitor, latest notifications, weather, etc.
I already made a prototype (https:/
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Not
- Drafter:
- Dracoscha
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Fabian Thoma
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I really like the idea and would love to have a place where interesting data like todays events, weather and so on could be placed. But I don't think this would be packed into the default elementary wingpanel, maybe you could propose your concept to super wingpanel.
Also draging the panel could be hard on small netbook touchpads, maybe a button to inflate the panel could be also an option and would be more recognizable than such a gesture with the mouse or a trackpad.
Are there any plans to give wingpanel a plug-in architecture? Would it make sense? IANAC but could super-wingpanel, wingpanel-slim and the above blueprint be implemented as plug-ins? Would that be better than the status quo in any way (plugs versus forks)? — @anubeon, 18:58 19/07/2015
This concept in general is interesting, however I'm not sure it fits in with the stupid simple design we are going for in wingpanel. It should only do the things you need to get to always. Not more and not less.
We allow wingpanel to be extended with the completely new indicators in Loki, but the extendibility only goes as far as adding new indicators. ~fabianthoma
