On Monday 24 November 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > First of all, the OSD uses the Notification WindowType, which - I think > > there has been a bit of a miscommunication - is meant for notifications. > > The OSD stays on top of everything, which is fine, but not the active > > fullscreen window. I thus propose to have a window type/layer for the OSD > > that stays on top of everything since I want to have volume feedback even > > when watching a movie. > > +1 to that
shouldn't that window type be perhaps renamed in OSD to avoid future confusion? > > > Furthermore, I've been using the notification applet with the > > Notification window type and it was no pleasant experience. The popups > > were always in the way, systray and other popups, even tooltips(!) were > > covered by the notification popup. At the moment you can bring popups > > above notifications by focussing the popup which is nice but there's an > > issue where clicking a notification causes the popup to close, which > > eats focus [1]. > > tooltips should not be managed windows, but override redirect. From EWMH > spec: "This property is typically used on override-redirect windows." - If > Plasma is not using override redirect windows for tooltips this is a bug > that should be fixed. An override redirect window is always on top of any > window managed by KWin (e.g. the notifications). plasma tooltips are override redirect yes > > Concerning other popups and the systray popups this need to be thought > about what we want to achieve. Concerning the systray popup I think we > rather found a weak spot in our setup: systray popup and notification > using the same area on the screen might not be the best solution. Anyway if the popup is open i think the notification should reposition itself to accomodate that (both appearing on top or under the systray popup is quite wrong, should simply be elsewhere). I had a patch for it but was quite horrible, maybe i can give it another go in a prettier way -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
