KWin handling of plasma desktop windows

[Guillaume Pothier]

FYI, Lubos gave the answer below in the kwin ML. So I'll go ahead and
remove that code, and make sure plasma always sets the geometry of the
views.
g


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz>
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: KWin handling of plasma desktop windows
To: kwin at kde.org


On Thursday 16 of October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote:
> Hi, this message is cross-posted to kwin and plasma-devel as
> coordination is needed.
> Currently both kwin and plasma adjust the geometry of plasma's
> DesktopViews in response to screen configuration changes.

> One solution is to skip the first test (if (geometry() == ...) and to
> replace FullArea by ScreenArea in the following. I don't know if it
> would reliably work. Another solution would be for kwin to not touch
> plasma's DesktopViews at all, letting plasma setting their geometries.
> I think it is the best approach. There are two ways to achieve this:
> make kwin not touch NET::Desktop windows (ie. remove everything except
> the return statement in the code above),

 I am fine with removing code from KWin that forces geometry of Desktop
windows (there's at least one more place in manage.cpp).

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