Bug 154514

Summary: zooming out: windows are untouched
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-23 09:16:40 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.97.0)

And I guess this was the basic idea to see all apps. I only see windows from current desktop, as if they are shown in zoom in (normal) mode.
Comment 1 Chani 2007-12-23 11:21:08 UTC
plasma controls the desktop, not the windows. perhaps you're looking for kwin's 'expose' effect.
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-23 13:33:17 UTC
Yes indeed. I was sure it works that way. I see no use in showing only applets from desktop1 zoomed out, but either I am missing something or something does not work yet.
Comment 3 Chani 2007-12-23 13:47:27 UTC
> Yes indeed. I was sure it works that way. I see no use in showing only
> applets from desktop1 zoomed out, but either I am missing something or
> something does not work yet.


yes, what you're missing is multiple desktop containments. :)
Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-23 14:51:08 UTC
Chani thanks, but still I have no clue what that should mean and what zoom out does.

I can only see it is zooming out the wallpaper from desktop 1 plus applets. This is by design, yes? What is the aim then?
Comment 5 Chani 2007-12-23 15:20:28 UTC
there will be other desktop containments, where you can put other applets, 
instead of white space. then you'll be able to zoom into one of them. that 
way you can keep different groups of applets, and switch between them.
Comment 6 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-23 15:40:59 UTC
Chani -- do you know any site I could read more about it? I don't want to take too much your time.

Anyway, it seems that it purpose is applet only zoom in/out then its usefulness is limited. Hmm, very, if you compare it to Kompose/Expose. Integrating such model into KDE would be a killer-feature. IMHO of course.
Comment 7 Chani 2007-12-23 16:00:25 UTC
> Chani -- do you know any site I could read more about it? I don't want to
> take too much your time.


try http://plasma.kde.org and http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma

> Anyway, it seems that it purpose is applet only zoom in/out then its
> usefulness is limited. Hmm, very, if you compare it to Kompose/Expose.
> Integrating such model into KDE would be a killer-feature. IMHO of course.


kwin already has an 'expose' feature that's probably what you were expecting. 
if you have composite turned on, just push your mouse into the top-left 
corner and you should see all your windows.
Comment 8 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-12-23 16:20:41 UTC
Chani, thanks a lot! Now I get it (the second link).

The expose feature does not work for me (RC2) now because I use live version and I don't have (I guess) composite turned on.