[RFC] Trigger KRunner on top screenedge

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012 13:51:35 Marco Martin wrote:
> 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)
ah right the glow - we actually discussed that we wanted to have glow on 
screenedges in the Spain sprint.
> 
> 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..
maybe introduce in 4.10, gather feedback and turn it to default in 4.11 if 
everything is fine?

Cheers
Martin
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