| Summary: | Improve highlight windows effect to better dim out not-highlighted windows | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Mirza <mirza.dervisevic> |
| Component: | effects-various | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | abulak, felix, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 4.8.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/8c352f685e77d4751010a395932ac1beb77a5a22 | Version Fixed In: | 5.22 |
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Difficulty to distinguish highlighted window
2 maximized windows and 4 not maximized |
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Description
Mirza
2012-04-20 13:19:10 UTC
Created attachment 70531 [details]
Difficulty to distinguish highlighted window
The screenshot is a bad example as it shows two maximized Dolphin windows both highlighted. That's of course a useless setup for highlight windows. Do you have a better example which does not involve highlighting multiple maximized windows? Created attachment 70538 [details]
2 maximized windows and 4 not maximized
Please look at new screenshot. If there is more than one maximized window it becomes difficult to distinguish highlighted window. And almost all of my windows are maximized all the time, especially on my laptop. I think i read in one of your posts (or someone elses) not to propose the solution only describe the problem, but i think some blur would help, or desturation of other windows, or even something like they do in windows7 peek effect. while I can easily recognize the highlighted window I see what you mean. I change it to wishlist as it is not really a bug, but the currently intended behavior of just setting all other window to translucency. Personal I have no idea on what and how this can be improved, I would say this needs designer input. How about solution ala Windows 7? The highlighted window is shown on top, whereas others are just outlines? Maybe some application of Blur? Highlighted is shown again on top of blurred others? The important thing is to make the highlighted visually contrast from the others. Setting opacity to maximum and showing it ON TOP of others translucent and/or blurred should suffice. is it possible with current Kwin effects chain? core issue is that elevating the window elevates it above plasma popups as well - at least the effect states that (i've never tried myself. martin?) elevating the window would however obviously be sufficient alone. > core issue is that elevating the window elevates it above plasma popups as
> well - at least the effect states that (i've never tried myself. martin?)
> elevating the window would however obviously be sufficient alone.
Yes that is the case, but should be fixable by elevating the popups, too.
*** Bug 384979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Git commit 8c352f685e77d4751010a395932ac1beb77a5a22 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 22/03/2021 at 12:00. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Make ghost windows in highlight effect be fully transparent FIXED-IN: 5.22 M +1 -1 src/effects/highlightwindow/highlightwindow.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/8c352f685e77d4751010a395932ac1beb77a5a22 |