[kwin] [Bug 348550] present windows layout should optimize screen estate

[Thomas Lübking via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348550

Thomas Lübking  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED

--- Comment #7 from Thomas Lübking  ---
(In reply to miklos from comment #6)

> Steam creates popup dialogs for group events, that are invisible
> ...
> These don't show up in present windows, but they are accounted for.

*cough* https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122435/ *cough cough* ;-)

> However, I can still force the natural layout to produce weird results

Quite frankly, I personally don't deem the "natural" layout a very reasonable
approach - the idea of present window (aka "exposé"...) is to provide a general
overview on your windows. Trying to reproduce the desktop mess as it is seems
rather counterproductive.

Closing "worksforme"
If you'd like to open a bug that says "If clients map iconified, there's no
thumbnail in the compositor and an empty space in some effects" ... I'm not
holding you back
:-P

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[kwin] [Bug 348550] present windows layout should optimize screen estate

[miklos via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348550

--- Comment #6 from miklos  ---
Created attachment 95863
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=95863=edit
present windows terminals.png

Meanwhile I upgraded my system, and I got KDE5. I can no longer reproduce the
above problem with grid layouts.

I also found out what caused the weird layouts on the screenshots. Steam
creates popup dialogs for group events (always on the current desktop), that
are invisible, until I specifically alt-tab to them (so they tend to amass).
These don't show up in present windows, but they are accounted for. Now I
disabled focus stealing prevention to see if they keep being created as
invisible.

However, I can still force the natural layout to produce weird results with
only 3 terminal windows. The screenshot was created with 3 terminals in the top
left corner, one of them maximized vertically, and one of the small ones moved
down a bit. If I move at least one of them out of that corner, the present
layout gets much better.

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