Review Request: Block screen edge activation for fullscreen windows

[Alex Fiestas]

> On Oct. 4, 2012, 1:15 p.m., Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > Mmm so I won't be able to trigger any edge while watching a video in fullscreen? on my laptop (with one screen) that's one of the things I do most :/
> > 
> > For a video, a presentation, and even file browser there are not many chances of the user hitting an edge accidentally... There is a problem with applications that have a custom GUI like gwenview on which case we may want to disable them (I'm still unsure but anyway).
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> > I feel that screen edges is something we haven't stop thinking of how the user may use'em if at all. In OSX by default they are NOT configured. If a user configure them manually we can assume that the user is "mature enough" to handle fullscreen app's and screen edges.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     config option?
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> Alex Fiestas wrote:
>     Config option for what exactly?
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>     I think the decision we take on this mostly depends on how we intend the user to use screen edges.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     [] Enable Screen Edge support on Fullscreen windows

Well if we decide to add an option for this... question remains:
Should it be enabled by default?

I think it should.


- Alex


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On Oct. 4, 2012, 1:02 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 4, 2012, 1:02 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma and Aurélien Gâteau.
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> Description
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> Block screen edge activation for fullscreen windows
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> If the active client is a fullscreen window, the screenedges on the
> screen the window is on get's blocked for activation.
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> We have to assume that the window is managing the screenedge itself to
> offer there additional functionality (e.g. a panel) and KWin's screen
> edge functionality would conflict.
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/screenedge.cpp a1507c3543877477e564bba368feaa31bc44655e 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106722/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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