In the Overview Effect, your panels remain visible and don't change in appearance at all. This suggests that they remain interactive--but they don't. We should do one of the following: - Hide or dim panels to eliminate the impression of interactivity - Keep them interactive
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Making them interactive is ideal. IF you are working on something full screen but need to quickly adjust an indicator or volume or something it's really handy. I utilize this all the time watching movies, playing games, or browsing the web full screen in a different DE.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/1795
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Git commit db2af5500f964f3eefde60183b69f21125aeb194 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Marco Martin. Committed on 13/05/2022 at 15:37. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. effects/overview: hide panels This makes it consistent with WindowView (and the panel window doesn't respond to input anyways even if shown, which is misleading). FIXED-IN: 5.24.6 M +8 -12 src/effects/overview/qml/ScreenView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/db2af5500f964f3eefde60183b69f21125aeb194
Git commit 7fcf36d636f62f101397d88ad6c448f54da79e46 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Marco Martin. Committed on 13/05/2022 at 15:39. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.24'. effects/overview: hide panels This makes it consistent with WindowView (and the panel window doesn't respond to input anyways even if shown, which is misleading). FIXED-IN: 5.24.6 (cherry picked from commit db2af5500f964f3eefde60183b69f21125aeb194) M +8 -12 src/effects/overview/qml/ScreenView.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/7fcf36d636f62f101397d88ad6c448f54da79e46