| Summary: | Prevent child dialog windows from being tiled | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | postix <postix> |
| Component: | Quick Tiling | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | nate, plasma-bugs-null, postix |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | git master | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Screenshot. | ||
This is true of all dialog windows. Not sure we should prevent this, but if we should, it would be done in KWin, provided that the dialog window properly identifies itself as a sub-window. (In reply to Postix from comment #0) > The close dialog of the Firefox can be resized or tiled, which does not make > much sense actually and which looks kind of weird if it's done. Well, it depends on the dialog. For example, the settings dialog from Konsole looks okay-ish when it's quick tiled. > Maybe it can be prevented from doing so? I can't remember that this is > possible on other operating systems like Gnome Desktop or Windows 10. Yeah, maybe we have to blacklist dialogs. (In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #2) > Well, it depends on the dialog. For example, the settings dialog from > Konsole looks okay-ish when it's quick tiled. That's true! > Yeah, maybe we have to blacklist dialogs. Or to whitelist dialogs, depending on what is less effort and easier to achieve, which I cannot evaluate. We basically have two kinds of dialogs, from a user perspective: 1. A "real window" that just happens to be a dialog. For example: open/save dialogs, settings windows, etc. These usually make sense to be tile-able as they are large and generally lay out their content acceptably when made bigger. 2. A "dialog box" that shows you a message or asks for some quick choice. For example: KMessageBox and its subclasses, job progress windows, the file overwrite dialog, etc. These never make sense to tile or even resize. Maybe there's a way to only prevent tiling (and potentially even resizing) for dialog type #2, but not #1. |
Created attachment 125240 [details] Screenshot. SUMMARY The close dialog of the Firefox can be resized or tiled, which does not make much sense actually and which looks kind of weird if it's done. Maybe it can be prevented from doing so? I can't remember that this is possible on other operating systems like Gnome Desktop or Windows 10. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.14.0