There is a warning when you go to the top menu but none from the bottom panel. Expectation: both should be the same. And, really, having to hit Alt-F3 to get out of full screen is a poor design. Should have some graphical way. Reproducible: Always
> Should have some graphical way. The aim of the full screen mode is that the window manager does not interfere with any elements of the application, so any graphical way needs to be supported inside the application itself (e.g. by adding a special icon to the tool bar, or by adding a special item to the context menu).
I'm not sure if I agree with that. Full screen seems to be initiated by kwin, so it makes sense that it's also escaped by kwin. Image that the 'escape full screen' action indeed is something that needs to be provided by the application: * not all applications might support it, in particulal non-KDE ones (solution might be to bar full screen mode for applications that do not support it) * it's not easy to escape full screen in applications that have no button or menu item for this (must use the kwin shortcut) One possible solution to keep this in kwin is to pop up a 'leave full screen' button when one touches e.g. the top screen border with the mouse pointer.
Thanks Tommy. Yes, I agree - there should be a way, though not one that is always visible on the screen. Moving the mouse to the top of the screen and holding it there for a bit (half second? second?) makes sense to me.
One more thing: the part about: There is a warning when you go to the top menu but none from the bottom panel. Has been left behind. Should that be submitted as a separate bug? However getting out of full screen works the message you get when going into full screen with those two methods, it seems, should be the same.
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