A DankMaterialShell (DMS) bar plugin that adds a single collapsible button to the bar which expands to reveal a group of other widgets inline — each keeping its own live pill and working popout.
Status: beta (v0.5.0)
Expanded — the group reveals its member widgets inline, with a double-chevron marking the end:
Collapsed — folded back into a single button:
Bars get crowded. Widget Group lets you fold a cluster of widgets behind one button and reveal them on demand. Because the members render inline in the bar window (not in a separate popout), each member's own popout positions correctly below the bar — exactly as if it were placed directly on the bar.
- Group any widget plugins behind one bar button; expand/collapse with a click.
- Members are the real widgets — live pills and fully working popouts.
- Expand direction: left/right on horizontal bars, up/down on vertical bars.
- Boundary marker: when expanded, a double-chevron at the far end makes the group's extent obvious (and mirrors the toggle for symmetry).
- Button display: icon, label, or both; choose the button icon from a searchable Material icon picker.
- Auto-collapse (optional): collapse after a configurable delay (1–30s), with an option to only start the timer once the mouse leaves the expanded group.
- Multiple groups via variants — each is a separate bar widget.
- Add / reorder / change / remove members; collapsible editor.
- DankMaterialShell (quickshell-based) with the plugin system.
- The plugins you want to group must be widget-type plugins and enabled.
dms plugins install widgetGroupClone into your DMS plugins directory:
git clone https://github.com/rdannenbring/widget-group.git \
~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/widgetGroupThen enable it in DMS Settings → Plugins, configure a group, and add it to your bar via Bar Settings → Add Widget.
- Enable the widget plugins you want to group.
- Enable Widget Group in Settings → Plugins and open its settings.
- Create a group, then click it to edit (button icon/label/display, expand direction, auto-collapse).
- Add member widgets; click a member to change its plugin, reorder, or remove.
- Bar Settings → Add Widget to place the group on your bar.
On the bar, click the button (▾/▴ or ‹/›) to show or hide the members.
- Only widget plugins can be members (they have a bar pill + popout). Daemon/launcher/desktop plugins aren't applicable.
- With auto-collapse → only after mouse leaves: if you open a member's popout and move onto that popout window, the group counts it as "mouse left" and collapses after the delay. The member's popout itself stays open.
The group is itself a real bar widget (PluginComponent); each variant is one group.
For each member it instantiates that plugin's widget component once — from PluginService.pluginWidgetComponents[id] — injecting the bar context (axis, barThickness, barConfig, screen, …) the way DMS's own WidgetHost does. It then proxies the member's horizontalBarPill / verticalBarPill / popoutContent components and renders them inline in its own pill. (QML Components capture their definition scope, so the proxied pill/popout keep binding to the live member instance — real data, real interactions.)
The key design point: members render inline in the bar window, not inside a popout. So each member's own popout computes its position relative to the actual bar and opens correctly below it — exactly as if the widget were placed on the bar directly. A floating dropdown panel would put members in a separate window and break that positioning; rendering inline is what makes it work.
Files
GroupWidget.qml— the collapsible button, member layout (horizontal/vertical, expand direction), and auto-collapse timer.GroupMember.qml— one embedded member: instantiates the target widget and forwards bar context.GroupSettings.qml— the editor (variants, members, display/direction/auto-collapse).DropdownIconPicker.qml— searchable Material-symbol picker (shared with the Dropdown Menu plugin).