Am Donnerstag 10 Februar 2011, 09.28:55 schrieb Ivan Čukić: Morning
> 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. Just an uninformed idea. But couldn't the scripting capabilities of Kwin and plasmoidviewer help to at least do a proof of concept? Instead of writing a new windows manager from scratch?!? griits Mario _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
