OSD above fullscreen windows

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 12 August 2014, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> 
> With Volume, I can maybe understand that you don't want to show it on top
> and the relevant application should be showing it. Maybe. With the others,
> they definitely should be.
> 

on use cases like a media center, i would see more being always the 
application deciding how to show it..
but, is something that can be put as a policy who does what, so if we decide 
the osd is always on top, then the hig should say full screen applications 
shouldn't try to show brightness, volume etc

> > If the outcome is a change, then let's do it properly by
> > introducing another type and layer - I don't want to semantically abuse
> > types
> > as we used to. I want to have Plasma pass as much information to KWin as
> > possible - we need that for the Wayland world anyway where Plasma cannot
> > just
> > bypass the window manager.
> 
> Okay. So lets introduce a new type, and use the actual "Notification" type
> for Notifications instead of a "dock type".
> 
> This is something that should be done regardless of the discussion.

+1

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Marco Martin