Bug 224253

Summary:	JJ: Dim Inactive effect: Don't Dim option in realtime for individual windows
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	effects-various	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	b.brachaczek, graeser
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2010-01-25 23:23:08 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

When working with multiple windows (such as in the Gimp, or two Okular windows side by side) the otherwise terrific Dim Inactive effect gets annoying. Please add an option to not dim specific windows on the fly. I imagine that an option in the title bar menu would suffice.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-01-25 23:32:56 UTC

Gimp has known problems, I think it does not mark its windows as tool windows.

As for the other use case (having two windows side by side to compare content), it might also be useful to have "don't dim" as an option in quick tiling mode.

Comment 2 Carsten Gräser 2010-03-01 14:51:21 UTC

Implementing it for quick tiling would be very restrictive. I use manually tiled windows often for latex editing (editor / viewer). For this use case it would be very nice to be able to disable dimming from by the window menu and a (perhaps user defined) short cut.

Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2012-03-11 14:38:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 99198 ***