[Bug 288425] Opening Calligra Active hides the top bar, which is a deadlock for the user; no way back to "normal" UI

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288425





--- Comment #3 from Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar autistici org>  2011-12-07 18:40:01 ---
I've aleady filed a bug in calligra active for this one (see
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288083) as I think the problem is on their
part.

I do see full screen applications as a valid use case. See videos for example.
Playing a video fullscreen definitely does make sense. Or showing a
presentation. Or an image slideshow (we already have that in the image viewer
and I wouldn't want to miss it). You don't want any distracting stuff there. So
pretty please do not prohibit fullscreen ;)

I'd rather put in the yet-to-write HIG for Active apps that
- an application may never start fullscreen
- if a fullscreen mode can be activated, it has to be possible to go back to
windowed mode with a button or touching anywhere on the screen

So for Active apps, the blocking fullscreen mode should never happen (and in
Calligra Active, it simply does not make sense unless doing a presentation, and
definitely not at startup).
If someone install a non-active app which can go fullscreen without any means
to return without a keyboard, then it's his/her problem, not ours.

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