[RFC] Trigger KRunner on top screenedge

[Shaun Reich]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Jacopo De Simoi <wilderkde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012 13:44:06 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 :-)
>
> I am using a virtualbox on a macbook as my work/devel machine (yes, that
> hurts) and the Mac menu bar pops up every time I hit the top border with the
> mouse. I find it most irritating, since the menu bar is totally useless for

uh, OT question..but why can't that be disabled? from mac osx, i mean
(i haven't used a mac in a while, least of all extensively)

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Shaun Reich,
KDE Software Developer (kde.org)