| Summary: | Panels should remain mouse-accessible while window is full-screen (not just when maximized) | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | silocoder |
| Component: | Panel | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | hsantanna, katze_942, nate, niccolo.venerandi, plasma-bugs, techxgames, wyatt.mike |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 5.20.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Sample Desktop | ||
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Description
silocoder
2020-09-21 21:28:39 UTC
Seems reasonable. Another detail that I like about the macOS version, and is also an option in an extension for Gnome, is you have you "push" your mouse past the edge to activate the panel. This lets you move your mouse to the edge more easily without accidentally activating your panel It gets even more awkward when you hide window decorations for fullscreen apps and use something like the Active Window Control applet. You just can't easily close the window with your mouse. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 349785 *** I'm not sure marking this as a duplicate was the right call? Testing on KDE Neon Unstable as of today, Dodge seems to only dodge maximised windows / windows overlapping with the panel. It does nothing when an app or video is fullscreen. Also, I'm not looking to use Dodge mode. I'm looking for my panels to auto-hide and still be accessible when an app is fullscreen/ a video is playing in fullscreen. Ah, so what you want is for Auto-hide panels to be mouse-accessible while a window is full-screen, not just maximized. That's reasonable as an option, but I doubt we could do it by default since it would be extremely disruptive for one of the primary use cases of full-screen content: video games. Maybe it could be an off-by-default thing or we could try heuristics to detect when you're playing a video game. Anyway,un-duping and moving to KWin since that's I believe where support for this would need to be implemented. By default, panels are stacked below fullscreen windows because you don't want them to interfere with fullscreen mode. It might be easier if plasma places panels in the overlay layer when using auto-hide or dodge windows mode. I think no changes are needed in kwin, PanelView would just need to request overlay layer, however the user would need to toggle an option in screen edges kcm. Ok cool. Moving back to Plasma, then. We could also make always-visible panels temporarily be auto-hide while a fullscreen window is in the front, to make sure that that still works too. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Ah, so what you want is for Auto-hide panels to be mouse-accessible while a > window is full-screen, not just maximized. That's reasonable as an option, > but I doubt we could do it by default since it would be extremely disruptive > for one of the primary use cases of full-screen content: video games. Maybe > it could be an off-by-default thing or we could try heuristics to detect > when you're playing a video game. > > Anyway,un-duping and moving to KWin since that's I believe where support for > this would need to be implemented. Yup! And apologies for being blunt but the "steps to reproduce" in the original report mentions playing a video in full screen. Thank you for un-duping. (In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #7) > By default, panels are stacked below fullscreen windows because you don't > want them to interfere with fullscreen mode. > > It might be easier if plasma places panels in the overlay layer when using > auto-hide or dodge windows mode. I think no changes are needed in kwin, > PanelView would just need to request overlay layer, however the user would > need to toggle an option in screen edges kcm. Screen Edges has such an option, and works exactly as I'd expect hidden panels to, where you have to "push" your mouse into the corner for one to activate. Created attachment 165421 [details]
Sample Desktop
Top is a fixed panel. Bottom is an auto hide task manager. When in full video screen, and mouse moved to bottom or top, the panels should appear and also the applications should be launch-able. Ideally :)
(In reply to mike wyatt from comment #2) > Another detail that I like about the macOS version, and is also an option in > an extension for Gnome, is you have you "push" your mouse past the edge to > activate the panel. This lets you move your mouse to the edge more easily > without accidentally activating your panel YES on this. By the way I have discovered that pressing the Meta key (or Window key?) already does this feature I am asking. However most of the apps are not clickable In other words when task manager or the top menu appears, clicking on an icon just returns back to the video. Pretty useless. *** Bug 483041 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 466289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 496386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |