Bug 395831

Summary: In fullscreen mode (F11): making the address bar / tab bar visible causes the web page to move down
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: magiblot
Component: generalAssignee: David Rosca <nowrep>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: magiblot, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description magiblot 2018-06-24 22:04:18 UTC 
Hello,

This is more of a feature request. When in fullscreen mode, making the address bar / tab bar visible moves down the web page, thus the distance from the mouse to the elements of the web changes, which is uncomfortable. I noticed that, because of this, I am afraid of making the bars appear by error.

In my honest opinion, it would improve usability if, in fullscreen mode, the bars were rendered as a 'floating element' which will just appear on top of the web, instead of displacing it. This way, they won't become any more difficult to use, while not altering browsing experience.

With such a feature, the fullscreen mode would be much more powerful.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-06-27 17:08:25 UTC 
Yeah, this is what most other browsers do.
Comment 2 David Rosca 2018-06-27 17:21:56 UTC 
Painting over QWebEngineView also negatively impacts performance (see native scrollbars), so this will never be implemented.
Comment 3 magiblot 2018-06-27 20:40:23 UTC 
Hi David,

I understand what you say, and certainly I agree with it, but the point of this report is to avoid moving the display of the web, not painting over QWebEngineView. That was no more than a mere assumption from me.

Thus, I don't think "WONTFIX" is the right resolution for this report. It is yet to be seen if anybody else can come up with an alternative method to solve this.

I believe this can't be overlooked. With this issue, the fullscreen mode is not suitable for practical use, in my humble opinion.
Comment 4 magiblot 2018-12-22 21:06:40 UTC 
Well, I have come to the conclusion that, rather than the display issue, what annoys me the most from the fullscreen mode is the delay before the bars hide again. Right now this delay seems to be exactly 1 second, which is excessive to my taste because it feels sluggish.

Nevertheless, I can't decide for everybody else, so my suggestion is to make this delay configurable from the preferences window. Indeed a much simpler solution than dealing with rendering.