I'm sure almost everyone here has seen the videos which make the Plasma Desktop shell like the Unity interface. I think these setups are beautiful, but my my gripe with them is that when a window is maximized, the window isn't integrated with the default panel on top. So when you sling your mouse to the top right of the screen and left click, you aren't closing the window like you do in Unity or in the default setup for Plasma Desktop, which makes for an accessibility problem. Because I find the oxygenized Unity-like interface appealing, I want to fix this problem and I'm going to dedicate some of my time to working on this; but I need guidance. This is where you guys can help! ...hopefully :)
Ideally this work can be downloaded as an activity template, right? Or should activities not be confused with shells? There's someone else working on a Kwin-QML interface similar to what you would get combining Moblin and Gnome, and he's looking at making it a shell. Aaron, you mentioned that there is some work needed "so that script packages can advertise a bit more clearly what they do (e.g. 'remake the whole desktop') and then present that in the UI", are you referring to shells or activities? You also stated, "we just need to add the ability to run a kwin js after the plasma-desktop js for the full effect," how do you propose doing this? Assuming activities are the way forward for this oxygenized-Unity interface idea (henceforth called Amity) , here's a link which may be relevant to this work: http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/PlasmaDesktopScripting#Templates In the metadata.desktop file, can you specify in X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends= other widgets the activity depends uses? In my case, initially, I need the Icon-only task manager and Takeoff widgets. Also, what do I need to look into in integrating a maximized window's titlebar into the default panel? This should be enough to get me started. Best regards Plasma dev team! -- Heath Matlock +1 256 274 4225 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
