Adding a margin around the desktop containment

[Thomas Schildknecht]

Hello :)

I'm planning to make a desktop containment with a feature that I've seen in
XFCE (well, I think) : adding a "margin" at the edges of the screen so that
windows can't cover this area. I think it's useful because with a big margin
at the bottom, I can put a floating macOsX-like dock or some other widgets.
Moreover, when someone use a very high resolution for his display,
maximizing windows is not very usefull because the maximized window is
really too big (and it just looks better with a margin around the window :)
). Finally, I'm a big fan of the "switch desktop with scrollwheel" and with
this feature, I can always have some visible area of the desktop.

I'm not very familiar with the internals of Plasma, so before I start
digging into the code, can someone tell me if this is feasible with a
desktop containment (for example, cloning the default desktop and adding
this feature) ?
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