Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday 04 November 2013 20:29:26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, November 4, 2013 20:25:44 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > Pushing the desktop to the side is definitely nice but due to the lack
> > > of
> > > input redirection in an X world, we cannot move all the window over a
> > > bit,
> > > too.(?)
> > 
> > yeah, that's my concern as well, i would love to have it, but since is
> > "semi" modal on X we would lose input for all windows, therefore becoming
> > fully modal again.
> > unless they are actually moved instead of just translated (don't know how
> > smoothly could be done in kwin and most important how much hackish)
> 
> i should have wrapped that whole suggestion in <wayland></wayland> tags. it
> is certainly not possible to do in a nice fashion on X11. we could  fake it
> to some extent, but it would never be perfect.
we can experiment with the window switcher. KWin grabs input anyway in that 
case so a simple visual translate in a KWin effect could work.

Cheers
Martin
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