On Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:25:21 AM CEST Michail Vοurlakos wrote: > Στις Πέμπτη, 21 Ιουλίου 2016 7:31:20 Π.Μ. EEST Martin Graesslin έγραψε: > > 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 > > Do you think that if instead of not drawing the background of the panel, we > were drawing a completely transparent background but disable blurring and > shadows for It, the same problems arise?
yes that's all just visuals. If KWin starts to snap windows against it, it uses the geometry. Shadow, blurring etc. are ignored. > > I use it currently in the panel, and actually it is almost doing its job... > If you wanna give it a go, it is in: > https://github.com/psifidotos/plasmaqmldock[1] > > And this is a screenshot for the panel that has NowDock plasmoid in it, > I loaded a full transparent desktop theme and disabled the blur effect. > http://imgur.com/KuiKcQD[2] Give it a try: move a window towards the dock. At some point it will start to snap against it. Cheers Martin
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