quickbar

A Plasma 6+ panel widget that shows the active application's global menu (the same DBus app-menu protocol as KDE's built-in Global Menu), with more appearance and behavior options.

Requirements

• Plasma 6.0+ (KF6 / Qt6)
• Build deps: cmake, extra-cmake-modules, gcc, libplasma, plasma-workspace (LibTaskManager), qt6-base, qt6-declarative, kconfig, kcoreaddons, ki18n, kitemmodels, kwindowsystem, kirigami

libdbusmenuqt is vendored from plasma-workspace (no separate package required).

Distribution (AUR, apt, dnf)

Currently there is an AUR for quickbar that goes under the name plasma6-applets-quickbar, for other distributions, you are going to have to run the install script shown below. I plan on having binaries for most distros in the coming days.

yay -S plasma6-applets-quickbar

Build & install

From a git checkout, ./install.sh detects your distro (Arch, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE) and installs any missing build dependencies before compiling:

./install.sh

Manual build:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build

Then restart Plasma or run:

kquitapp6 plasmashell && plasmashell &

Add quickbar from the widget gallery (category: Windows and Tasks).