Can you tweak titlebar style?

Desktop editors
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Is there a way to tweak the look of the titlebar (close, minimize , maximize buttons)?

On Linux the look of titlebar is rather problematic - as Windows style is used (it doesn’t have its own, separate style as MacOS version has.) it looks really off. Would love to get through an extra hoop to make it look better :slight_smile: .

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Hello @Przemek

Unfortunately there is no way to customize the look of the title bar in ONLYOFFICE Desktop editors.

We are open to take any suggestions you have.

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Thank you for the answer - that’s a shame. So just to make it straight - there’s no way I could for example swap the images used for close / minimize / maximize window buttons? They are the most annoying offenders, the colors are ok.
If you have any ideas how could I contribute to help in making OnlyOffice look better under Linux plz let me know.

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Right now no customization for Desktop Editors is available.

To contribute you can share with us a screenshot of the buttons so we can check if they are displayed correctly.

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If you’re running the Flatpak version in GNOME. You can run

flatpak run org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors --system-title-bar

And it will open OnlyOffice with Native Window Controls. You can close it, reopen it, and it will keep this configuration.

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Thanks for this suggestion, it even works with the official repo version in Manjaro KDE Plasma 6.3.6.

No i have the window buttons in my global menu (but without the menu ;-))

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This is the configuration with --system-title-bar and a global window controls/menu.

if the global menu will be used by OnlyOffice it would be really great, but respecting the system title bar is a good start for now… :wink:

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Hello @JPS
Yes, you can use this flag Running Desktop Editors with parameters
This is an old thread, there wasn’t confirmed documentation back in the days.
It’s related to system window.

if the global menu will be used by OnlyOffice it would be really great

Could you please elaborate on this idea? If it’s possible, make a screenshots\draw a scheme of desired behavior.

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This is how the global menu looks on LibreOffice.
The KDE module is part of Plasma and the module is maintained by Kai Uwe Broulik kde[at]privat.broulik.de, if it helps!?

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Thank you! We need some time to check the situation.
I will update this thread once we have something to share.

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Hello @JPS
Sorry to bother you again.
To sum it up: the --system-title-bar key works, but do you need the same upper toolbar menu as it persists in LibreOffice?

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Hello @Alexandre,

thanks for your reply and question about the global menu.

I don’t “need” the same menu as in LibreOffice because the design concept in OnlyOffice is different from LibreOffice.
OnlyOffice has the ribbons “menu” which is located in the application window.

Nonetheless perhaps there is a new perspective to gain more screen real estate even with the ribbons concept!?

One thing could be to put the quick-access into the global menu position…!?
Or to put the ribbon menu-entries in to the global menu position and the ribbons in the window…!?

But that is just some brainstorming.

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Hello @JPS
Understood, unfortunately, such logic of using the desktop app wasn’t planned, and there’s currently no way to achieve it. I’ll keep this thread open, and perhaps we will return to it in the future for a more detailed discussion.