| Summary: | Maximize for widescreen | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | atoms |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
atoms
2007-02-19 07:10:52 UTC
Op Monday 19 February 2007, schreef Quentin Jackson: > This could be part of XGL/Compiz but I feel it would be just as essential > in the non-3d desktop. > > The idea is simply that nowadays if you have a widescreen desktop, a lot of > this space is wasted. Often I will be working on two documents, or two > applications and maximise my appliaction so that it is bigger, however in > the case of openoffice for example the document I'm working with shows in > only the left hand side of the screen and the rest of the screen is grey > and wasted. I feel it would be very very nice to have maximise options > specific for widescreen displays. Something as simple as maximise to left > or to right would be great, though I'm sure your clever selves could come > up with somethine more automatic and cool than that. It seems to me that > we've had a major change in our screen real estate over the past year or > so, but nobody's taking advantage of it. I would love KDE to be the first > to do so! ;} Well, then, I think the developers love how much you trust them coming up with great ideas, but the fact is that KDE needs it's users for this more than for anything. You're right, doing something with the transition to widescreen is very important. Microsoft has already made a stupid decision here - their new office places all it's info on top of a window, while Koffice is working on sidebars - much more space-efficient. But you might be right, maybe Kwin can help here too. But for that, we need ideas. Some developers here might be very smart (true, they are) but it's hard to come up with a solution for this. Any thoughts from other people would help, so if you or someone you know can spend a few hours brooding about this would be great, even more so as you might think. Hint: I always think during showering, and get the greatest ideas then. My problem is I've forgotten most of them when I finally get to a pc or paper to write it down ;-) > Q Superstoned Jos: Please don't include reply quotation like this in bugzilla. I'm sorry, won't do it again. I replied using mail, works nice but there is this force of habit to keep too much of what the other person said ;-) |