Bug 475363 - Blacklist for "Window placement: Maximized"
Summary: Blacklist for "Window placement: Maximized"
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_kwinoptions (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Other
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2023-10-08 10:54 UTC by Matthias
Modified: 2023-10-11 21:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Thats all I see (64.70 KB, image/png)
2023-10-08 10:54 UTC, Matthias
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Description Matthias 2023-10-08 10:54:38 UTC
Created attachment 162162 [details]
Thats all I see

SUMMARY

I really love the setting "Window placement: Maximized"
The only thing I see as a drawback, is that certain apps, who are clearly meant to be launched in its own, small window - not maximized - end up like in my screenshot. 

The app in discussion is color picker. Could we please provide an exposed list, that lets us set certain apps, to not maximize?

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set Window placement to Maximized
2. Open Color Picker
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT

Color picker occupies the whole screen with two gigantic icons.  

EXPECTED RESULT

Color pickers opens normal, as intended by its developer. 
Operating System: Garuda Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.5-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 7,4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP EliteBook 820 G3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please see the screenshot.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-10-11 21:08:34 UTC
You can do this yourself with Window Rules.
Comment 2 Matthias 2023-10-11 21:15:22 UTC
Well, sure. Still, some states just make no sense, and users run into those, the second they set to maximized and open one of these apps.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-10-11 21:17:43 UTC
The problem is that KWin can't know what apps work well when maximized and what apps don't.

Note that the triggering condition for this bug will become impossible in Plasma 6 because we've removed the "Windowed Widgets" KRunner Runner that lets you open Widgets as windows. Those are designed to be tiny and never make sense to maximize, so that source of this issue will go away.