[RFC] Trigger KRunner on top screenedge

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just wanted some feedback on an idea I got today. What about binding the
> showing of KRunner on hitting the top screen edge?
> 
> Given that KRunner slides in from the top edge it would end up in a neat
> functionality, throw the cursor against the edge and down comes KRunner.
> Maybe even centered at the cursor position?
> 
> I don't think that the top screen edge would conflict with anything else.
> When using for quick-maximization of maximized windows the action would
> not be triggered anyway and for grabbing a maximized window to move it
> away it would not matter either as you have to push against the edge.
> 
> So opinions? Should I add support for that in KWin? It's pretty trivial :-)

+1 for adding the support (the awesome would be even using the glow is used to 
hint the autohide panels at the moment)

would you make it default? (i'm a bit more hesitant on this) in that case it 
should disable automatically if the user puts a panel on top..

Cheers,
Marco Martin