SUMMARY Full screen videos, should allow mouse to show/access Panel apps/widgets. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open youtube video. 2. Enter full screen 3. Move mouse to top of screen. OBSERVED RESULT Only shows an X to Exit full screen to click on. EXPECTED RESULT Should show the panels so application menus and widgets can be accessed. Similar to when you press the Meta key. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0 Qt Version: 5.12.8 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-48-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ======================== When playing a full screen video such as YouTube, if I want to access any of the apps/widgets on the panels, I have to first exit full screen using the mouse. This is inconvenience as to many times I would like to view System Tray info, time, set volume, etc. while watching a video without having to exit full screen. As an example, on the Mac, when you move the mouse to the top or bottom of the screen the menus show up and you can make selections from the system tray. Also if you run another app, the full screen app is minimized. Then to restore it, you can just click the app in the dock. Right now, when you move the mouse to the top of the screen, all you get is an X to exit full screen video.
Seems reasonable.
Another detail that I like about the macOS version, and is also an option in an extension for Gnome, is you have you "push" your mouse past the edge to activate the panel. This lets you move your mouse to the edge more easily without accidentally activating your panel
It gets even more awkward when you hide window decorations for fullscreen apps and use something like the Active Window Control applet. You just can't easily close the window with your mouse.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 349785 ***
I'm not sure marking this as a duplicate was the right call? Testing on KDE Neon Unstable as of today, Dodge seems to only dodge maximised windows / windows overlapping with the panel. It does nothing when an app or video is fullscreen. Also, I'm not looking to use Dodge mode. I'm looking for my panels to auto-hide and still be accessible when an app is fullscreen/ a video is playing in fullscreen.
Ah, so what you want is for Auto-hide panels to be mouse-accessible while a window is full-screen, not just maximized. That's reasonable as an option, but I doubt we could do it by default since it would be extremely disruptive for one of the primary use cases of full-screen content: video games. Maybe it could be an off-by-default thing or we could try heuristics to detect when you're playing a video game. Anyway,un-duping and moving to KWin since that's I believe where support for this would need to be implemented.
By default, panels are stacked below fullscreen windows because you don't want them to interfere with fullscreen mode. It might be easier if plasma places panels in the overlay layer when using auto-hide or dodge windows mode. I think no changes are needed in kwin, PanelView would just need to request overlay layer, however the user would need to toggle an option in screen edges kcm.
Ok cool. Moving back to Plasma, then. We could also make always-visible panels temporarily be auto-hide while a fullscreen window is in the front, to make sure that that still works too.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Ah, so what you want is for Auto-hide panels to be mouse-accessible while a > window is full-screen, not just maximized. That's reasonable as an option, > but I doubt we could do it by default since it would be extremely disruptive > for one of the primary use cases of full-screen content: video games. Maybe > it could be an off-by-default thing or we could try heuristics to detect > when you're playing a video game. > > Anyway,un-duping and moving to KWin since that's I believe where support for > this would need to be implemented. Yup! And apologies for being blunt but the "steps to reproduce" in the original report mentions playing a video in full screen. Thank you for un-duping. (In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #7) > By default, panels are stacked below fullscreen windows because you don't > want them to interfere with fullscreen mode. > > It might be easier if plasma places panels in the overlay layer when using > auto-hide or dodge windows mode. I think no changes are needed in kwin, > PanelView would just need to request overlay layer, however the user would > need to toggle an option in screen edges kcm. Screen Edges has such an option, and works exactly as I'd expect hidden panels to, where you have to "push" your mouse into the corner for one to activate.
Created attachment 165421 [details] Sample Desktop Top is a fixed panel. Bottom is an auto hide task manager. When in full video screen, and mouse moved to bottom or top, the panels should appear and also the applications should be launch-able. Ideally :)
(In reply to mike wyatt from comment #2) > Another detail that I like about the macOS version, and is also an option in > an extension for Gnome, is you have you "push" your mouse past the edge to > activate the panel. This lets you move your mouse to the edge more easily > without accidentally activating your panel YES on this.
By the way I have discovered that pressing the Meta key (or Window key?) already does this feature I am asking. However most of the apps are not clickable In other words when task manager or the top menu appears, clicking on an icon just returns back to the video. Pretty useless.
*** Bug 483041 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***