Some simple ideas for desktop 4.8

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Sunday 25 September 2011 21:27:39 Viranch Mehta wrote:
> About borders.. The blue window glow around the windows is also quite
> oldish,
> of course, personally :) I have turned it off, since windows look much
> better
> without the glow, also dragging windows is much faster when compositing is
> on,
> without the glow (at least on my 3-year old laptop). So it would be a good
> thought
> to have it disabled by default (of course, let there be the option to enable
> it)
> Just a thought :)
Please we don't need a discussion about personal taste on a developer mailing list. We have designers to decide on the 
look and feel and I know that I have no idea and completely trust the designers choice.

Cheers
Martin
> 
> Cheers,
> Viranch
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, September 25, 2011 05:28:12 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 September 2011 16:24:25 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > > > Hi there !
> > > >
> > > > I've been using the default settings for a while now (like 1month) and
> > I'd
> > > > like to propose a couple changes for 4.8, let's see what are your
> > > > opinions:
> > > >
> > > > 1-Show the same windows in "Window switcher" and "Taskbar":
> > > >     Right now by default, Window Switcher is showing only the windows
> > in
> > > >     the
> > > >
> > > > current desktop while the taskbar is showing the windows in all
> > desktop.
> > > > This has been very confusing for me since I'm not able to access to a
> > > > window I'm seeing in the taskbar via Window Switcher.
> > > >
> > > >     I don't care wether we switch both to "Show only windows in this
> > > >
> > > > workspace" or the other way, but both should show the same.
> > >
> > > With window switcher you mean Alt+Tab, right?
> > Yes, the default "Box" one
> > > Having those two synced sounds reasonable and I would suggest to go for
> > only
> > > current desktop as by default it's only one desktop and means less
> > clutter.
> > Well activating this we have the problem that libtaskmanager is quite
> > broken
> > right now, so we must fix it if we turn this option on by deafult.
> >
> > > without borders you cannot resize the window.
> > Yes you can, a small "grabber?" appears on the bottom-right, but I can see
> > how
> > that is less usable if you don't know it, though in the other hand that
> > solution quite common these days, for example web-textareas.
> >
> > > Nuno has been begging me to
> > > improve the situation and maybe I get to do something about it. Anyway
> > this
> > > is something Nuno has to decide and IIRC he wants to have it on per app
> > > basis, e.g. Konsole without borders, others with borders.
> > >
> > > Apart from that we can hardly change anything in a general way for window
> > > decorations. This would have to be completely inside the Oxygen
> > decoration.
> >
> > Oki, then I will wait to see what Nuno thinks about this :p
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