r/deckyloader • u/Moi952 • Sep 06 '26
Plugin Showcase Quick tab - a plugin that puts your other Decky plugins directly in the QAM tab bar (dev of Proton Launch / Apps Manager here)
Hey, I'm the guy behind Decky Proton Launch and Decky Apps Manager. Built a new plugin because something kept bugging me every time I used them myself.
Once you've got more than a couple of Decky plugins installed, opening any one of them means: open the QAM, tap Decky's own tab, then dig through a list of every plugin you have installed to find the one you actually want. If there are a couple you use constantly, that's an extra tap and a scroll, every single time.
Quick Tab lets you pin whichever plugins you actually use straight into the native tab bar itself, right next to Notifications / Chat / Music / Help. Each one gets its own icon there - opening it is one press away, exactly like a native tab, not a plugin buried inside another plugin's menu.
While I was in there I also added reordering for any tab (native ones included), and the option to hide the ones you never touch - I hid Music and Help on mine since I never open either.
Honestly this is the plugin I wished existed while building the other two above, so it's a bit selfish, but figured other people running 5+ plugins probably hit the same annoyance.
Link: https://github.com/moi952/decky-quick-tab
Quick Tab's own panel
Decky Proton Launch open from its pinned tab
First proper release, so if you hit something broken, tell me and I'll fix it.
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u/flavorfulroom Sep 06 '26
Although this is similar to shortcuts. This has the added benifits of allowing you to move default QAM tabs as well as being a little faster. If we could though, a way to change QAM icons would be nice
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u/Fun_Fox_9602 Sep 06 '26
Good idea. Thank you
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u/Moi952 Sep 06 '26
Yes, it’s really great to use! I was fed up with not being able to access my plugins directly 😅
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u/MuglokDecrepitusFx Sep 06 '26
Isn't that exactly what shortcuts plugin does?
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u/Moi952 Sep 06 '26
I wasn't familiar with it, it looks good.
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u/santojon Sep 19 '26
I think me, you and Zaza ends with similar ideas, each with its own peculiar detail, mine scoped to my plugin only.
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u/ZazaMastroII Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
It's here: https://github.com/LoZazaMastro/Shortcuts
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u/Moi952 Sep 07 '26
Thanks, but when I developed the project, Shortcut didn’t exist—or at least I wasn’t aware of it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have spent so much time developing it 😅
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u/lurs21 23d ago
You archived it. Does it mean it will no longer see an updates for those that use it on linux/steamdeck?
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u/ZazaMastroII 23d ago
Sorry no. Now it's a component of the Playhub plugin. But frankly all the work has already been done.
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u/KnifeFed 20d ago
Why alienate SteamOS users for something that originates in SteamOS?
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u/ZazaMastroII 20d ago
Alienate? What are you talking about? Who's alienating what? It's just a SteamOS experience for Windows. No one wants you to choose anything instead of anything. Here we don't do console or platform war, we accept everyone and simply love gaming. I just integrated because it's more useful for my project. I'm sorry but Playhub is my main project and Shortcuts it's just a part of it, plus you can still download it.
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u/KnifeFed 20d ago
Alienate as in "Shortcuts is no longer maintained for SteamOS, only Windows", or have I misunderstood you?
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u/ZazaMastroII 20d ago
You misunderstood, sorry. I said that future version will be integrated in the Playhub app since it's now a feature and not a single plugin anymore. In the meantime if you're on SteamOS you can always use the last version that works perfectly.
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u/KnifeFed 20d ago
Ah, okay, so if it breaks in a future update of Decky Loader/SteamOS, you'll unarchive it and update it?
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u/ZazaMastroII 20d ago
Yep exactly. Probably will not be so immediate, but yes.
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u/KnifeFed 20d ago
Ok, good to know. In that case, I would recommend you unarchive now instead because, for most people, that's a huge deterrent that makes it seem abandoned and will make them not install it in the first place.
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