Bug 410296 - FEATURE REQUEST : Present Windows Effect ... ability to change the size and spacing of the Window Preview thumbnails !!!
Summary: FEATURE REQUEST : Present Windows Effect ... ability to change the size and s...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: effects-present-windows (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2019-07-27 22:22 UTC by aiamuzz
Modified: 2019-07-28 07:00 UTC (History)
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A rendering of the desired final output/layout against the current implementation !!! (1.33 MB, image/png)
2019-07-27 22:22 UTC, aiamuzz
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Description aiamuzz 2019-07-27 22:22:25 UTC
Created attachment 121782 [details]
A rendering of the desired final output/layout against the current implementation !!!

Hi,

This is my second feature request to further develop this effect so it can be modified to make it more elegant wrt the different user screen sizes ...

Currently this effect specifically the Regular Grid Layout covers the whole screen end to end horizontally.

I would request two options here ...

1. To be able to increase/decrease the size of this grid so that we can reduce it to the center of the screen at a more elegant proportion.

2. To be able to vary the distance between the window preview so that we can spread the windows in grid that best suits our screens aspect ratio's


PS : I have attached a mockup of the current implementation (Top) ... versus the intended implementation (Bottom) ... i'e ... should this feature be executed
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2019-07-28 06:15:29 UTC
I'm sorry but the Present Windows effect is unfortunately not in any state to extend it further.
Comment 2 aiamuzz 2019-07-28 07:00:26 UTC
oh ... hmmmmmm

This look would have greatly improved if only the scaling option(request no. 1) was added ...

By scaling i mean the whole windows grid could be scaled to the center so that sufficient padding around the grid could be achieved so as to match with the current spacing between the windows ... Is even this not possible ?

If the option of scaling is too complex ... even a little padding added around the screen edges(top, bottom, right & left) would greatly improve the window layout. The current implementation where certain windows bleed on the edge of the screen puts this otherwise great layout out of aesthetics ...

In simpler terms i am just hoping you set some margins around and then display the window layout/grid inside those margins ... imagine a word document without margins ... the text would really look ugly if it extended to the edge of the paper its printed on ...