https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480155
Bug ID: 480155
Summary: Tiling minimums are too large on ultra-wide monitors.
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: git-stable-Plasma/5.27
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Custom Tiling
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Currently, the smallest tile area permitted 15% of the screen.
At 1920x1080, that gives a minimum width of 288 pixels, and a minimum height of
162 pixels. Not too bad.
But at 5120x2160, that's 768 pixels wide, and 324 high. And when the monitor
is very large instead of high DPI, that's a very large minimum size.
This is controlled in src/tiles/tile.cpp, where s_minimumSize is defined as
0.15.
As a default for more reasonably sized displays, 15% is just fine, but we
really need to provide some way to change it, or barring that, we need to set
it much smaller.
Something like 5% would make the 5k resolution minimum close to the current
1080p minimum, though that would then make the 1080p minimum width a mere 96
pixels, which is very much getting down to icon sizes.
However given that this would still be big enough to see that it exists, and to
grab the borders, I'm not sure that this would be the worst option possible.
But again, the best option would be to provide some way to change the minimum,
even if it's just a scripting API.
(I'd be willing to take a crack at changes to support changing it, however I'm
on Debian Sid, and thus still on 5.27.10, and I'm really not sure that a patch
for this targeted at the 5.27 series would be useful or even accepted. If this
is inaccurate, please let me know, and I'll take that crack at it.)
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