Screen Edge handling in 4.11

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Monday 21 January 2013 12:37:04 Marco Martin a écrit :
> 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)

Exactly, this is what I had in mind.

Aurélien