With Plasma’s toolbar set up to show icons + lables, I am finding that how the labeling is done is inconsistent (and probably application-dependent). But I hope there is a way to fix that on the User end.
In this screen shot, both Dolphin and SublimeText are showing full directory path (Dolphin) and the full directory path + filename (SublimeText). Meanwhile, LibreOffice is showing just the filename, and FireFox is showing a page title. Screenshot:
Those latter two tabs are good information for when many taskbar tabs are present, but for the others the showing of the path (and only part of it, at that) is just clutter and not the needed specific information.
Is there a way in Plasma 6+ for the user to dictate what is shown in the taskbar tabs?
I don’t think Plasma could easily do this, because the application gives the window a title, and that’s what’s shown in the task manager tab.
The application obviously goes through some logical steps to make the title, but Plasma doesn’t see those steps, only the end result.
i.e. Sublime Text doesn’t say “hey Plasma, here’s the path, here’s the filename, please put them together in the way you see fit to make a window title”. Sublime Text just gives its window a title, and how it does so is a black box from the point of view of the window manager.
Maybe a way for Plasma to do it would be to have a user option to just show the name of the application as the label.
For programs that have internal tabs for when multiple files are open, this would of course be very sensible. For programs that can open as multiple instances for multiple files, this option results in arbitrary all-the-same tabs; however, that is how it is on Windows machines so I’m used to it since the tabs (both in Plasma and Windows) can be moved into a logical order.
So I think providing users that option may be a very helpful solution.
