Bug 490945

Summary:	Ability to change the number of cubes with multiple screens.
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Stef Bon <stefbon>
Component:	effects-various	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdedev, nate, vlad.zahorodnii
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Stef Bon 2024-07-28 20:08:01 UTC

SUMMARY

Hi,

good work to see that the window effect 3D cube is back. I've tried it but it's lacking multiscreen support. I have two monitors for one desktop, so the plasma desktop is spread over the two screens. Now the 3D cube effect gives a cube per screen, and that's not what I want, and not how it worked. Some years ago the 5 version of this effect just created one cube, like it should. Can you look at it?

Keep up the good work.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Activate the cube (on my system: Ctrl-F11)
2.
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT

 I've got one desktop spread over two different monitors, I see two different cubes

EXPECTED RESULT

It used to work like one cube, where the sides of the cube are made of the two screens. That was pretty nice.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo Linux 2.15 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Stef Bon 2024-08-08 16:30:31 UTC

I've thought about this, and it would be very nice to have the options:

- show a cube for every screen/monitor (like it is now)
(the sides are constructed with only the screen it's on)
- show one cube in the center of the desktop, which means it's spread over all screens (like it was with plasma 5)
- show one cube only on the primary screen

With the second and the third option the sides are constructed using all the desktop screens.

Stef

Comment 2 TraceyC 2025-03-17 20:49:49 UTC

Migrated to kwin
Resetting version