OSD above fullscreen windows

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 15:38:33 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 11:11:08 Marco Martin wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Looking at my TVs, it always shows the "OSD" when volume changes, that would
> be something I'd also expect a media center to do.
> 
> Maybe we want different OSD when fullscreen. I've never seen a TV with the
> volume information on the center.

We already have that (assuming media center is its own shell and uses its own 
Look and Feel package). The OSD is loaded from L&F.
-- 
sebas

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