Fwd: Re: [PATCH] fade out panel in desktopgrid

[Martin Gräßlin]

sorry I forgot to cc plasma

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fade out panel in desktopgrid
Date: Montag 09 Februar 2009
From: Martin Gräßlin <ubuntu at martin-graesslin.com>
To: "Kwin, NET API, kwin styles API, kwin modules API" <kwin at kde.org>

On Monday 09 February 2009 11:43:05 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> given that there is a simple, elegant solution (don't show the panel when
> showing these multi-desktop overview effects) it certainly is worth the
> effort.
Plasma's default is to show windows of all desktops in tasks applet, right? So 
for the default settings everything is OK in desktop grid. Only users changing 
the default are affected by this "bug". So removing the panel at all (as the 
patch does) is IMHO too much, but personally I don't mind having an opt-in for 
this "feature".
> > Other effects like the cube would have to be modified too
>
> i thought the cube already had an option to keep the panel full size? and
> honestly, that probably makes more sense anyways since the cube rotates the
> desktop contents.
Cube only keeps the panel at full size if you use cube for desktop change 
animation. If you just use the cube to manually rotate and play around you 
will have the panel the same way as in desktop grid ;-)
>
> > and having the panel hidden would
> > look worse than just having it slightly incorrect
>
> that's obviously a matter of opinion.
>
> > . DesktopGrid is still
> > only an effect and not the real desktop (e.g. clicking doesn't work
> > normally either), so we consider to be better this way.
>
> effects that are more visually consistent with naive expectations are more
> satisfying. thinking in terms of "this is fake, this isn't" misses the
> point of what makes a user happy or not.
Removing the panel does the same. "We are not able to update it, so we just 
remove it".


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