Adding a margin around the desktop containment

[Rob Scheepmaker]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 14:41:21 Thomas Schildknecht wrote:
> >> What you're talking about is I think essentially a strut.
>
> A "strut" ? What are you talking about ? And do you think what I said is
> doable ?
> Thanks

It's most certainly doable. Take a look at http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-
apidocs/kdeui/html/classKWindowSystem.html
With setStrut or setExtendedStruts, you can set struts. Struts are basically 
area's of which kwin is made aware that windows aren't supposed to cover them 
when maximizing the window. Basically you could implement your own containment 
type which has config options for margins and which uses KWindowSystem to set 
the struts depending on those margins. 

Good luck! :)

Regards,
Rob