Adding a margin around the desktop containment

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:56:43 Thomas Schildknecht wrote:
> 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.

You can also mousewheel on the pager, just in case you didn't know that.

> 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) ?

What you're talking about is I think essentially a strut.
-- 
sebas

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