I'm not sure I see this as Martin did. The thing I agree with is that this can't be plasma. This would first and foremost need to be a new window manager, which would load plasmoids as windows. (so, I agree with the 'hardly possible' statement - implementing a new WM is not a trivial task, far from it)
So, this can't be window-as-a-plasmoid (as Martin said a hackish and broken concept) but it would need to be the other way round plasmoid-as-a-window which is possible and works well even today. So, essentially if you want to go from 'impossible' to 'hardly possible' replace 'plasmoid' with 'application window' :) As for the ideas: - Creating a window by 'drawing' a rectangle on the desktop is similar to what Plan 9 OS is doing. With one significant difference - you choose 'start an app' and then you can 'draw' anywhere - not only on the desktop. So, it works even when you don't see your desktop. - Having resize/move a window influence other windows is a rather nice concept. Although, IMO, that part could be improved in your mocks - Taskbar showing only windows that are minimized or completely covered by some other window looks nice. -- Cheerio, Ivan -- While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
