Is it possible for a plasmoid to overlap the panel?

[Michail Vοurlakos]

Στις Πέμπτη, 21 Ιουλίου 2016 7:31:20 Π.Μ. EEST Martin Graesslin έγραψε:
> On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 8:53:03 PM CEST Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 July 2016 21:15:33 Michail Vοurlakos wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to implement a plasmoid task manager that behaves
> > > like the Mac or the Plank one..
> > > the code can be found here:
> > > https://github.com/psifidotos/plasmaqmldock[1]
> > > it is in a very early stage but the animation is there and showing
> > > and hiding windows also...
> > 
> > I tought about an use case like that in the past...
> > 
> > you would need to have a very big panel, mostly completely transparent (so
> > it means you couldn't use always visible mode, and you depend from having
> > composite)
> > but for 3rd party things may be ok-ish.
> > 
> > what the panel on our side would need to do, is not to draw its background
> > in that case, basically just respect the background hints, just like
> > applets do. I am thinking to add that never the less in 5.8, wouldn't
> > change for the default one, but could be a little fun quirky possibility
> > for kdelook stuff
> 
> Not drawing the background won't be enough: we also need to look at the
> window manager story, which gets interesting for panels:
> * background need to be input shaped
> * strut must not be set on the whole window
> 
> Whether KWin would support that - I do not know. I could assume it would
> still adjust the windows to the size of the panel.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin

Do you think that if instead of not drawing the background of the panel, we were 
drawing a completely transparent background but disable blurring and shadows for It, 
the same problems arise?

I use it currently in the panel, and actually it is almost doing its job...
If you wanna give it a go, it is in:
https://github.com/psifidotos/plasmaqmldock[1] 

And this is a screenshot for the panel that has NowDock plasmoid in it,
I loaded a full transparent desktop theme and disabled the blur effect.
http://imgur.com/KuiKcQD[2] 

Cheers,
michail


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[1] https://github.com/psifidotos/plasmaqmldock
[2] http://imgur.com/KuiKcQD
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