Review Request 110176: Change the visual appearance of the composited outline

[Thomas Lübking]

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Ship it!


elevating the dragged window makes it acceptable even with opaque themes and a clear improvement over the status quo in about all cases.

- Thomas Lübking


On April 26, 2013, 6 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated April 26, 2013, 6 a.m.)
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> Review request for kwin and Plasma.
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> Description
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> Change the visual appearance of the composited outline
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> Uses widgets/translucentbackground as FrameSvg item to ensure that we
> don't get a huge black square on the screen.
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> When bordering a screen edge we disable the border except if all edges
> are bordered. This makes a little bit more clear in the quick tiling case
> what will be the geometry.
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> Blur behind the outline does not work as:
> * moving the window generates artefacts
> * moved window needs to be above the outline, but outline needs to be on
>   top of everything. Elevating the moved window results in strange
>   side effects when moving the window "below" a keep above, etc.
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/geometry.cpp 5a6786d 
>   kwin/outline.cpp ad3cfc0 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110176/diff/
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> Testing
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> I tried various Plasma theme elements. dialog/* and widgets/background are not useable as there are solid themes.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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