What started out as an experiment, has now become a full blown feature. I present to you, our own custom title bar.

A custom title bar gives us more control of the sizing of our widgets, especially in floating mode, as Qt will otherwise favor the OS min dimensions. Normally I wouldn't see this as a problem but the resizing system is Qt is so quirky sometimes that I experience that there are not enough handles to take control of the sizing properly.

With our new custom title bar, this is no longer the case. We are in full control of what we want to show, how it should be sized and what it should look like.

What our current one looks like on each respective platform:

macOS	Windows	Linux

The new one:

macOS	Windows	Linux

The title bar has been built using the standard palette which should make sure that it looks correct on all platforms. I've designed some new icons as well, a normal one, an active one and the same in dark variations.

The most prominent changes can be seen on macOS, especially the dark mode titlebar which was previously shown in a terrible gradient... the icons were not high DPI either.

For the other platforms, the change should be minor. On windows the title bar looks nearly identical except for the icons of course. When I tested the build on Peppermint OS, previously the title bar was more embedded into the widget, where as with the new one the title bar background is as prominent as the other platforms. Personally I think it looks fine that way but I am also not daily driving a Linux distribution. What do you think?

When the title bar becomes too narrow to show both the title and the buttons, it will favor the title and hide the buttons. The buttons can however still be accessed by right-clicking. Although in the right-click menu, there's no animation currently when hovering the items, so it uses the active representation instead.

Visual highlights:

Light	Dark

Builds to try: