Adding a margin around the desktop containment

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Thomas Schildknecht wrote:
> >> Well, rather than writing a new containment you can just provide a patch
> >> for the existing one that allows the user whether to set margins or
> >> not..
>
> it's a very specific feature so I don't think many people will be
> interested :)
>
> anyways, I quickly added some struts to the desktop; it basically
> works but there is a problem : when a popup menu like Kickoff, the
> menu from grouped tasks in the taskbar or the panel toolbar is showed,
> it respect the struts and is not attached to the panel anymore...

that would be kwin being helpful and keeping all windows inside the struts.

an "ignore struts" window hint would be nice in this case, and we could just 
set that on all of plasma's popups.

> oh, and the window decoration is not painted when maximized so it's
> not very cool to have a borderless window in the middle of the
> screen...

i wonder if there would be a way to work around that in kwin .. hmm..

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