On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 8:53:03 PM CEST Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 20 July 2016 21:15:33 Michail Vοurlakos wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to implement a plasmoid task manager that behaves > > like the Mac or the Plank one.. > > the code can be found here: https://github.com/psifidotos/plasmaqmldock[1] > > it is in a very early stage but the animation is there and showing > > and hiding windows also... > > I tought about an use case like that in the past... > > you would need to have a very big panel, mostly completely transparent (so > it means you couldn't use always visible mode, and you depend from having > composite) > but for 3rd party things may be ok-ish. > > what the panel on our side would need to do, is not to draw its background > in that case, basically just respect the background hints, just like > applets do. I am thinking to add that never the less in 5.8, wouldn't > change for the default one, but could be a little fun quirky possibility > for kdelook stuff
Not drawing the background won't be enough: we also need to look at the window manager story, which gets interesting for panels: * background need to be input shaped * strut must not be set on the whole window Whether KWin would support that - I do not know. I could assume it would still adjust the windows to the size of the panel. Cheers Martin
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