As discussed on the mailinglist [1] the tiling support is
removed from KWin. The main reasons for this step are:
* it is unmaintained
* it is a mode not used by any of the core KWin team
* original developer said at Akademy 2012 that he is not
interested in picking up the work again
* tiling has quite some bugs, e.g. multi screen not supported
* is conflicting with other concepts in KWin, e.g. activities
There is ongoing work to get tiling supported through a KWin
script, which is a preferred way as it does not influence the
existing C++ code base.
[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=133149673110558&w=2
BUG: 303090
FIXED-IN: 4.10
REVIEW: 105546
Stop at bounds while flicking to have a list which behaves in a
natural way on the desktop and ensure that the scrollbar
handles cannot overshoot the list.
Next to the preview/configure button a GHNS button is included
as a simple button with icon only to not break the layout.
Currently the button is not shown as the category on kde-look
has not yet been created yet.
CCBUG: 297636
REVIEW: 104894
- adds the kcm rule option to set the activity - one or all option like
for virtual desktops
- makes the windows obey the rule
- makes the rule enforced even when the user tries to change the
window's activity via the alt+f3 menu
REVIEW:104972
Button currently not yet shown as the category on kde-look is
still missing. This means the code is also completely untested.
REVIEW: 104877
CCBUG: 296774
Effects can specify their minimum requirements in their
desktop file:
* OpenGL
* OpenGL 2 (GLSL required)
* Shaders (either ARB or OpenGL 2)
The configuration module uses this information in combination
with which backend KWin is currently using. So if e.g. OpenGL
is used and an effect requires OpenGL 2 a detailed error
message can be showed that OpenGL 2 is required.
BUG: 209213
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
REVIEW: 104847
Additional TabBox Mode which allows to switch between all open
windows of the current selected application. By default Alt+tilde
is used which is on qwerty just one key above tab. For non-qwerty
layouts the shortcut is unfortunately not convenient.
REVIEW: 104730
FEATURE: 299308
FIXED-IN: 4.9.0
Instead of getting the information from CompositingPrefs
the running KWin instance is queried through D-Bus.
In general the running KWin should have more information
about whether Compositing will work or not.
This means the kcm no longer has to link OpenGL.
REVIEW: 104753
There is no need to have it driver specific any more.
All drivers seem to support it (only Intel had been
opt-ed out without any apparent reason shown in commit log).
This was the last driver specific setting which means that
the method applyDriverSpecificSettings() got dropped from
CompositingPrefs.
CompositingPrefs have only be used to get the default
value when reading whether the Compositing Enabled
config option.
But CompositingPrefs always returns true which makes
it useless to create an OpenGL context for this.
REVIEW: 104752
Some old restructuring caused -DKWIN_HAVE_OPENGLES to no longer be
passed to the compiler, causing OpenGL-specific code to be built
while the libraries to link it were not available.
REVIEW: 104558
This is useful for scripts controlled from other KCMs, like e.g.
DesktopChangeOSD which is controlled by the virtual desktop KCM
and should not be listed in the scripts section.
connecting to a kwindowsystem signal that causes instantiation of
kwindowsystemprivate breaks window focus.
this match makes it use internal kwin signals to track the embedding window geometry
REVIEW:104039
List view is replaced by KPluginSelector. This is not an optimal
solution as it makes it impossible to get the selected item and
reloading seems also not to work after a new script is installed.
This should become a proper Model based view.
Window Strip is only for Plasma Active, so we don't want to see
it in the UI for Window Switcher Layouts as it would not properly
work on the desktop anyway.
Accomplished by a simple property definition on the service file.
A new service type is introduced which is used by the KCM to find
all available window switcher layouts. This makes it finally possible
to have 3rd party window switchers.
Also the tabbox finds the packaged QML file through the service
definitions.
Desktop switcher is not yet in packaged version (UI to configure
is missing).
REVIEW: 103951
This allows to select whether TabBox should exclude minimized windows,
or only show minimized windows or just don't care about minimized windows.
This is the default and the behavior as it used to be.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Avallone <stavallo@unina.it>
REVIEW: 103698
Thanks to Nuno for providing the QML based scrollbar. Obviously
this does not improve the consistency with other widget styles, so
a proper solution is still required.
BUG: 291612
This includes the delegates, the layout configuration for the delegates
and the custom view for the TabBox.
This can now finally be done as desktop tabbox is based on QML, too.
Buttons are exported as a global "options" in the factory.
Additionally the theme's buttons are also exported. The thme decided
based on the custom button positions property which one to use.
In the kcm the button options are also exported.
This should be the last of the bunch...it was split up so it could be
easily reverted/looked at.
The idea is that all of this will improve searching functionality for a
lot of people using System Settings. That's the hope anyways.
In reality it doesn't help much *yet*, because somebody needs to make
the search functionality search for more .desktop files. It currently
only does main ones afik. I don't know if this is a technical
limitation, or just a minor oversight and perhaps something easy to fix.
Hopefully what I've done is towards a good direction though, of
improving search functionality in system settings...
This KCM has been implemented by Tamas Krutk in the scope of
Google Code-In.
It is a simple KCM just listing all available scripts and allowing
to import/export them.
This will be further extended alongside the planned scripting changes
in 4.9.
Replaced by a TabBox layout. The effect is still there as it
can be used for desktop switching (which is not yet ported to layouts)
and as a proxy effect for CoverSwitch.
The users who use BoxSwitch will be migrated to the new layout.
Reduces duplication of settings in different areas and was only
providing a small subset of the possible window switching capabilities.
With BoxSwitch being possible to be rendered as a "normal" window
switcher it does not make much sense anyway.
A new QML item "ThumbnailItem" is registered to the TabBox. The
C++ implementation finds the EffectWindow of the TabBox and adds
itself to the EffectWindow.
While rendering the EffectWindow the information for all registered
ThumbnailItems are extracted and the thumbnail is rendered on top
of the EffectWindow.
This has obvious limitations like you cannot put other QML items
on top of the thumbnail. Nevertheless it works well enough to
be a possible replacement for e.g. BoxSwitch effect.
When compositing is disabled an icon is rendered instead of the
Thumbnail.
One TabBox Layout inspired by BoxSwitch Effect is added. For the
KCM small pre-rendered items are used.
REVIEW: 103039
All the default layouts (informative, compact, text, small and big icons)
are rewritten in QML and replace the ListView used before. The old code
is still around for the desktop switching modes which are not yet ported.
Next steps include to update the configuration module to not show now
obsoleted settings as well as providing a better way to choose the layout.
REVIEW: 102948
