OSD above fullscreen windows

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 14 August 2014 13:11:47 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > on the other hand it also shows why I think that showing notifications
> > > relevant during a fullscreen window is active, must be in the
> > > responsibility of the application. Only the video player can know where
> > > the black bars are to place the OSD.
> > 
> > See Martin K.'s argument: People are more likely to use the dedicated
> > volume keys on their keyboards rather than shortcuts to change volume in
> > the application, so they are changing the master volume, not the
> > application volume. If we could ensure that all video players would catch
> > changes in masdter volume when full screen and display their own OSD
> > instead of Plasma's, that would surely be great, but I don't know if
> > that's even possible let alone realistic.
> 
> I did not necessarily mean that it's the application's task to handle it. I
> meant: we need communication. The application must provide us information
> whether
> a) it handles it itself (we don't want two volume changed OSDs)
> b) where we can safely put the OSD

Yes, absolutely!