xyzianz / plasmium

A Qt-based integration between chrome/chromium and plasma desktop and rofi

plasmium

A Qt-based integration between chrome/chromium and the plasma desktop (as well as rofi)

State

This is a work-in-progress. It is constantly being rewritten on a day-by-day basis.

Browser support

• Chrome and Chromium
• Theoretically, any browser which implements WebExtensions with Chrome-compatible API:s. Opera and Firefox may work, but it is not tested nor maintained.

Dependencies

• Qt (5.5)
• CMake (build dependency)
• qmake (build dependency)

Build

First, cd into and build /plasmium with qmake . ; make && sudo make install

Then (if you want plasma krunner integration) cd into and build /plasmiumrunner with cmake . ; make ; make install

Then (if you want rofi integration) cd into and build /plasmiumrofimodi with qmake . ; make && sudo make install

Then finally:

• install /plasmiumextension/org.kde.plasmium.json into either /etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts or /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts depending on your browser.
• open chrome://extensions, tick the Developer mode checkbox, press Load unpacked extension... and browse to the location of plasmiumextension and load.

Rofi usage

Start rofi with the following parameters:

-show chrome -modi run,chrome:/usr/bin/plasmiumrofimodi,ssh

Or if you want to combine several modis into one entry (please note, this disables opening urls not specifically in the chrome.topsites):

-show combi -modi combi -combi-modi chrome:/usr/bin/plasmiumrofimodi,run,window,ssh

What is working now

• There is a dbus interface with working implementations to:
• mute all tabs
• mute all background tabs
• unmute all tabs
• unmute the current tab
• Get a list of top sites from the browser
• Get a list of open tabs and windows
• Open a new tab with a specified URI
• Switch to a specific tab and bring its window to the front
• Get a list of all windows currently playing audio
• There is a rofi modi (a plugin for rofi, you will need to add it to your rofi setup/config yourself) which can open a new tab in your browser using a supplied uri, with rofi completion from the list of top sites, as well as switch active tab in the browser
• There is a non-working krunner plugin which will be able to switch between tabs in the browser

Contribute

Yes, please! That's a very good idea!

Todo

• Collect underpants
• Set up keybindings for plasma, gnome and xbindkeys
• Package chrome extension
• Use actual debugging instead of writing to a file
• Export bookmarks from the browser
• Export the browser history API
• Open a new window in the browser
• a taskbar plasmoid integration, which only paints the plasma 5.9 audio icons on chrome windows which actually plays sound
• a working krunner plugin to switch between tabs in the browser
• extend the rofi plugin to also complete based on browser bookmarks, the history API
• --Build a second rofi plugin which switches tabs in browser, just like the krunner plugin is supposed to do-- (Done!)
• bind the XInput media keys to playing media objects in the browser, such as youtube, spotify or google play music.
• ????
• Profit!

Other possibilities: (not sure if these are worth-while)

• It is possible to open chrome settings directly via a simple dbus message (newTab: chrome://settings/). Subsections of the chrome settings are also possible to open, such as chrome://settings/passwords. This could be utilized in e.g. a kcm_chrome module for systemsettings or from rofi/krunner.