I would suggest that you also please look at integrating window grouping between Plasma's tasklist and with Kwin, as mentioned in a post earlier.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=123257671807508&w=2 I apologize if inappropriate, but I thought it would be an excellent example of Plasma-Kwin integration, if task integration is a path the admins wish to take. Also, on your #10: Don't you mean, "so users without _mice_ can activate and use them"? On 2/9/09, Richard Moore <richmoor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here's the write up of the kwin and plasma integration discussion at > Tokamak. > > Cheers > > Rich. > > Plasma and KWin Integration > =========================== > > This is the results of the discussion on the areas we (the plasma team) feel > we need help from the kwin team to produce better integration. It's a > mixture > of issues from fairly trivial ones, through complex ones, to those that come > down to issues with specifications like NETWM. The aim is to provide users > with the best possible experience running a pure-KDE desktop. > > 1. Ability to obtain pixmaps of windows. > > There are a number of effects that would be possible within plasma and other > applications if it was possible to obtain a full pixmap of a window (even if > it is obscured). This information is available to kwin and used for > compositing, the idea would be to publish it for use by other applications. > > Our idea was that maybe this could be handled in a suitably performant way > by > using QPixmaps that share an XPixmap handle between both kwin and the client > application (plasma in our case). > > > 2. Better thumbnail scaling. > > The scaling algorithm used by kwin to create the window thumbnails seems to > produce pretty poor results, comparing the results with Qt's smooth scale > for > example. Looking at the code, they appear to be using a codepath that > generically supports all the transformations used in effects. Could we get > better results by having a codepath that is specifically designed for > scaling? > > 3. Ability to have windows on a specific set of virtual desktops. > > Being able to say a window is on desktop 1 and 3 for example. This one isn't > a > big deal, just a 'nice to have'. > > > 4. Per-desktop struts. > > At the moment struts apply to all desktops, which doesn't make sense if (for > example) you have different panel configurations on different desktops. It > could also be an issue if a particular desktop was a full-screen media > center, > though in this latter case it can be worked around. > > > 5. Shadows of shaped windows. > > At the moment the shadows of shaped windows don't really work, could we have > something like a separate shadow mask? > > > 6. Marco created a patch that added a shadow to the plasma panel, and whilst > kwin handled the strut correctly in some cases, it did not in others. For > example, the magnetic window borders stuck to the shadow rather than to the > edge of the panel. > > > 7. Theming of kwin dialogs to match the rest of the desktop furniture. > > Things like the window menu are part of the desktop rather than part of > applications and it would be great if they were coloured like the other > pieces > of furniture rather than like the applications they manage. The same thing > applies to a number of other things drawn by kwin such as in the box switch > effect. > > > 8. Document modal windows. > > Having a way to handle document-modal windows along the lines of the Sheets > in > MacOS. These would be positioned over their parent window and move with the > parent. > > > 9. Hide the panel when zooming out to show the containments. > > As discussed already by Sebas, and patch provided. > > > 10. Alt-Tab to desktop and panel > > The desktop and panel need to be able to get the keyboard focus to allow > users > without keyboards to activate and use them. > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel