Screen Edge handling in 4.11

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 21 January 2013, Martin Graesslin wrote:

> > I take it this system will be implemented in a library. Do you plan for a
> > fallback plan, in case the system is using another window manager? For
> > example when running on Gnome, Openbox, Windows, Mac OS?
> 
> I don't have any plans for a library yet and I at the moment cannot see how
> to have a fallback for GNOME or even Windows or MacOS. I don't know
> whether foreign systems provide such an API. Let's first add it for Plasma
> bits and then see whether it is needed for apps at all. In case we go for
> "no edge triggering if there is fullscreen app", we don't need to provide
> a lib for apps.

if the client to the kwin dbus api is done in a library would anyways be easy-
ish to make it create the edge grabbing windows by itself wether the kwin dbus 
service is not available (and destroy them as soon as this service appears)

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Marco Martin