Bug 150631 - making yakuake unfold from any side of the screen
Summary: making yakuake unfold from any side of the screen
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: yakuake
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 3.0.5
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL:
Keywords:
: 264370 326333 414863 510726 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-10-09 18:25 UTC by james ashton
Modified: 2025-10-20 00:20 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

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Attachments
Patch for unfolding yakuake from below of the screen. (1.39 KB, patch)
2008-07-04 10:57 UTC, Bartosz Szreder
Details
Patch mk. II (1.40 KB, patch)
2008-07-04 11:57 UTC, Bartosz Szreder
Details

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Description james ashton 2007-10-09 18:25:20 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.1 
OS:                Linux

It would be great if it was possible to make yakuake unfold from any side of the screen, not just from the top, or at least from the bottom. Speaking for myself, it would be much more useful if it could unfold from the bottom too. I could finally use yakuake to replace my current "floating konsole" solution which is simply based on konsole and the ability of kwin to apply particular settings to specific windows.

Cheers

Jami
Comment 1 Victor-Philipp Busch 2007-11-13 17:44:44 UTC
It would be nice, if the unfolding begins in the middle of the screen (SystemShock-Players (from 1994!) know what I mean).

Idea for the animation:
First Step: Yakuake open in the middle of the screen as point.
Second Step: Yakuake will be a line.
Thrid Step: Yakuake will be a box.
That would be cool!
Comment 2 Eike Hein 2007-11-13 17:47:24 UTC
Hehe, props for a nice idea (I did play 'Shock ;).
Comment 3 Victor-Philipp Busch 2007-11-13 18:13:31 UTC
Hehe, and E-Mails will be displayed as TriOpt-Messages in the middle of the screen. With the cool Logo-Animation ;)

But now... I wish me a yakuake in the middle of my desktop ;)
Comment 4 Bartosz Szreder 2008-07-04 10:57:56 UTC
Created attachment 25829 [details]
Patch for unfolding yakuake from below of the screen.

This patch applies to version 2.8.1. Added checkbox in settings which allows
opening terminal from below.

I don't have QtDesigner 3, so I had to hack the appropriate .ui file by hand.
It's fully usable, but results in a bit ugly positioning of the checkbox in
settins dialog. Someone with older Designer could fix this in mere minutes.
Comment 5 Bartosz Szreder 2008-07-04 11:57:05 UTC
Created attachment 25830 [details]
Patch mk. II

Corrected patch, fixes minor graphic glitch (off-by-one error in calculating
widgets geometries).
Comment 6 Eike Hein 2008-07-04 13:34:30 UTC
Please note that development of the KDE 3-based version of Yakuake (anything older than 2.9.0) is closed, and no further patches will be incorporated into that codebase.

(That said, I also wouldn't accept it for the KDE 4-based version - if I do this, I will do it properly by making sure the new skin engine allows for skins to be written that can properly adapt to different window positions, and allow all screen edges. No stomach for yet-another-checkbox hacks. :-) Still, thanks for sharing for those who might want it.)
Comment 7 Stephan Sokolow 2009-02-09 21:24:36 UTC
Interesting idea, but I think it'd be better to collaborate with KWin on doing the animation in WM compositing first... or at least ask them for the ability to set show/hide animations in the window-specific settings dialog.
Comment 8 Eike Hein 2011-01-26 23:19:26 UTC
*** Bug 264370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Aleksander Mierzwicki 2011-09-02 14:26:09 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 10 Martín Cigorraga 2012-08-17 05:44:16 UTC
+1!!

It would be totally awesome to unfold Yakuake from any side of the screen, even from the center as the good'ol System Shock panel use to behave!
Comment 11 Eike Hein 2013-10-20 16:22:14 UTC
*** Bug 326333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Jim Jones 2013-10-20 16:48:20 UTC
+1
Comment 13 Simon 2015-04-25 22:41:28 UTC
Wow, this issue is from 2007, but I'll still add my +1. It would be awesome if it would be possible to open the terminal from the bottom. Other than that I really like yakuake.
Comment 14 Ricardo Funke Ormieres 2016-04-28 19:13:06 UTC
I see that there's a patch for version 2.8.1 but I can't see the checkbox in 3.0.2. why?
Comment 15 Christoph Feck 2019-12-27 18:23:43 UTC
*** Bug 414863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 wesselih 2024-01-06 15:11:58 UTC
(In reply to Simon from comment #13)
> Wow, this issue is from 2007, but I'll still add my +1. It would be awesome
> if it would be possible to open the terminal from the bottom. Other than
> that I really like yakuake.

Now it's 2024 and I'd still add my +1. Is there hope? :-)
Comment 17 matiux 2024-03-10 16:14:07 UTC
(In reply to wesselih from comment #16)
> (In reply to Simon from comment #13)
> > Wow, this issue is from 2007, but I'll still add my +1. It would be awesome
> > if it would be possible to open the terminal from the bottom. Other than
> > that I really like yakuake.
> 
> Now it's 2024 and I'd still add my +1. Is there hope? :-)

And this is my +1 :)
Comment 18 Jérémy 2024-03-27 08:42:53 UTC
+1 !
The only feature missing in KDE to make me completely forget about Gnome + Guake.
Comment 19 Peta 2025-10-06 07:10:22 UTC
+1 in 2025 :-)
Comment 20 John Bonomi 2025-10-20 00:20:58 UTC
*** Bug 510726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***