[Differential] [Commented On] D3355: add maskArea in panel view

[mart (Marco Martin)]

mart added a comment.


  looking more into it, i see that qregions are not directly supported by qml, it should become a qvariantlist of rectangles, that's quite ugly, so scratch that.
  
  another thing, even if the input mask is correct, it would still not work correctly: both window maximizing and snapping would go to the real geometry of the window, making the "trick" obvious. window maximization could be fixed by setting different struts, but that would *not* work on wayland.
  
  An alternative approach for the parabolic zoom of your dock I tought instead is doing in a similar way of plasma mobile (for its top, pull-down slide panel):
  
  - the panel would have the "real" geometry, always "small"
  - when the mouse goes over it, another window that is not the panel appears (i think it would be either a dock window or a bypasswindowmanagerhit one) it may either be a fullscreen window or just the size of the maximum extent the icons would zoom
  - the icon list gets reparented in the new window, tough positioned exactly over the panel actual geometry
  - now it can animate and zoom where it wants, anywhere in the screen
  - when the cursor goes away the icons area, the icons animate to small again, then gets reparented to the real panel again, the second window gets hidden again

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D3355

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