for the aurorae engine there is an option to se the decoration "title" to any side you want, via "DecorationPosition" http://techbase.kde.org/User:Mgraesslin/Aurorae#Decoration_Position. for example DecorationPosition=1 is decoration of the left. this one works very well. the problem is now that the buttons and the title text string will remain on the window top. so they are not usable anymore, wich is very bad and needs to be fixed. since this breaks a feature (you will not find any theme that it use this, because of this broken behaivior) for theme creator i'll mark it as 'major feature broken' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download some new kwin decoration (aurorae decorations) 2. go to the config directory and look for the theme folder 3. open the <themename>+rc 4. paste something like this in it: http://pastebin.kde.org/pfdxv1ygo important parts to know http://techbase.kde.org/User:Mgraesslin/Aurorae#Decoration_Position 5. now enable the theme Actual Results: window is now movable with the left border, buttons remain on the top Expected Results: buttons should follow to the left
> you will not find any theme that it use this, because of this broken behaivior in that case you are wrong. I know that the feature broke when I ported it to QML and I didn't spend time on it, because there was no theme which made use of it. Given that I concluded that it was a nice idea, but is not used. Due to changes in the QML implementation between 4.11 and master, this won't be fixed in 4.11. Whether I spent time on it for the master branch I do not know yet.
I would like to express my support/vote for this to be implemented. With today's widescreen monitors, vertical screen real-estate is at a premium, many apps pile on additional layers (like a web browser: menus, tabs, search-bar, etc). I've spent my whole day trying to find a window manager that supports a "titlebar on the left", and was elated to find even the (know known to be broken) titlebarPosition mechanics, and after *NEARLY* giving up (after far too many hours tracing through the unfamiliar kwin source code) I was elated to find the DecoratorPosition attribute (which does not share the 'title bar' identifier), frustrated at my inability to locate a theme that uses it, at own experimentation of it being broken (in fact, a bit worse than FabiB reports), and ultimately found my way to this bug entry (as I came here to file such a ticket myself). Much thanks to Martin's specificity, that I can now, at least, track down an old (or specialized) distro to test this interface design with a precise version number (<=4.10)! I also appreciate (having actually *LOOKED* at the source code), that this support has not been ripped out. I didn't want to silently pass by this ticket, because if everyone does, there would be no feedback/demand for this feature. If I might make a minor request... please replace the TODO questioning the removal of this feature: * kwin/abstract_client.cpp @ 565 * https://github.com/KDE/kwin/blob/5b4eb80c8fdb6ea72c6046389578421b00824c6f/abstract_client.cpp#L565 ...with a link to this ticket. That would have saved me so much time!
This issue report is quite old. Can you please confirm, that it still persists with KDE 5.23?
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