Desktop containment question

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Wed Feb 4 19:50:09 CET 2009


On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:41:05 Ambroz Bizjak wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:06:15 Jamboarder wrote:
> > > From: Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at gmail.com>
> > > Right now, there is no possibility to place widgets so that they go off
> > > the desktop edge. If you place them like that, they pop back in when
> > > the widget handles disappear.
> > >
> > > The problem is not the first fact, but the pop-back-in behavior is a
> > > bit peculiar. Proposed solution would be not to allow widgets to move
> > > that far if they can not remain there later.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Perhaps we could also consider reducing the current invisible boundary
> > near the screen edges to zero to allow widgets to sit at the edge of the
> > containment (and soak up a little of the Fitts Law goodness the panel
> > already benefits from).
>
> The screen edge boundary is controlled by the ScreenSpacing attribute in
> DesktopLayout, measured from the outer edge of the applet, which is
> currently set to 5 in DefaultDesktop (desktop.cpp).
>
> Allowing the border to be outside the screen seems like a good idea and I
> can implement it, but should this be the default behavior?

It would be neat if those edges were kind of magnetic, so that applet can be 
sticked to an edge, and loose their frameborder on that edge so that they look 
like they're growing out of the side. We could try that, and see if it works 
well enough for a default.
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sebas

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