Bug 464951

Summary: Animations for Quick Tiling actions
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: tim <imagesfromobjects>
Component: Quick TilingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, xaver.hugl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.90   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description tim 2023-01-28 17:40:07 UTC
SUMMARY
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When using Quick Tile (e.g. Meta+Right to tile window to the right edge of the screen) there is no animation, so it appears abrupt and out of place.  


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a window
2. Click on the window to activate it
3. Use Meta+Right and Meta+Left to tile the window to either side of the screen.

OBSERVED RESULT

Window moves jarringly to either side.

EXPECTED RESULT

Window movement should follow the animations of Maximize, Overview etc.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: KDE neon Testing Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-58-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 23.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics
Manufacturer: ADATA
Product Name: XENIA 14

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This is purely a UX / aesthetic thing, but it would make the Plasma experience more pleasant to add a scaling or rubberband effect for tiling-related actions.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-02-06 19:50:15 UTC
It was in progress at some point with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/583, but it looks like the author abandoned the work.