Kara

A KDE Plasma Applet for use as a desktop/workspace pager. This project is an evolution of GINTI and Desktop Indicator, and further development will be handled here. Built with extendability in mind. Currently difficult to manage anchoring and positioning. Could be eliminated by a common component, but requires a lot of testing.

Contributing

Ideas and nitpicks

All ideas and nitpicks are welcome! This project is actively looking for ideas.

New highlight style

Look at the .qml files inside contents/ui/highlights/.

It should be self explanatory, the op property is manipulated inside the component by a loader to give different styles of highlighting.

To test it, add the path to contents/ui/Common/HighlightLoader.qml file(should also be self-explanatory).

New Indicator style

These are stored inside contents/ui/representations/. To test yours, add the path to the switch statement inside contents/ui/main.qml.

• Positions are now handled by a gridlayout and thus making future development simple.
• Each representation will be placed inside a parent rectangle. To update the gridlayout of the dimensions of the representation, call updateGeometry(w,h) from within each representation.
• Get to work making your representations, and open a pull request. Make sure to beautify it.

!!If your representation is really close another one, see if it would make more sense to first add a configuration option for it.

Adding new config options

These will only be added after careful consideration and should not directly be added by the contributor. If you are opening a pull request for a new indicator or highlight style, hard-code the values temporarily.

Installation

Nix package

For those using NixOS or the Nix package manager, you can install the widget using one of these methods:

• NixOS

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ kara ];

• home-manager

home.packages = with pkgs; [ kara ];

• plasma-manager: If the widget is added to a panel or to the desktop, it will be installed automatically.
• Other distros using nix package manager:

# without flakes:
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.kara

# with flakes:
nix profile install nixpkgs#kara

Manual installation

cd into the cloned directory and run sh install.sh. Or install from the Get new widget functionality in KDE Plasma.