When a window that is on a different virtual desktop than the current one gets
activated, the current behavior is that the active virtual desktop will be switched
to the one the activated window is on. This may seem reasonable for a scenario where
the user explicitly intends to activate an existing window on a different desktop.
However, the following scenario is also (perhaps even more?) common: When an
application responds to a launch command by requesting to activate an existing
instance instead of opening a new one (such as Firefox or KDE System Settings), an
existing window on any desktop will get activated even when what the user had in
mind was opening a new window (on the desktop they are currently in).
This means that opening an application, such as following a URL or accessing a
system setting, unexpectedly results in the user being teleported to a different
virtual desktop. This can be very irritating. The more expected behavior for these
users would be to have windows always open on the desktop where they are called
from. That's is what this commit adds as a new option.
BUG: 438375
FIXED-IN: 5.26
Summary: Alt + Left Click to move windows has a tendency to conflict with creative workflow apps. While Alt can be changed to Meta in KWin's settings, Alt + Left Click shortcuts often cannot be customized in apps. Rather than making every user who runs into this problem change their settings, we should change our default settings to improve KWin's default usability. The fact that Alt + Left Click to move windows is older does not matter. We are trying to use Meta for global/shell shortcuts anyway.
BUG: 399375
Test Plan: The relevant parts of the relevant tests pass. kwin-testInternalWindow fails, but for unrelated reasons that have something to do with XWayland.
Summary:
Right now a few of the window placement modes suffer one or more of the following problems:
- Inconsistency between the text shown in the Window Behavior and Window Rules KCMs
- Title does not indicate what it does
- Awkward wording
- Lack of unity in grammatical mood between the different modes
This patch fixes these issues by improving the strings and standardizing on the descriptive mood:
- Smart -> Minimal Overlapping
- Maximizing -> Maximized
- Cascade -> Cascaded
- Zero-Cornered -> In Top-Left Corner
Strings are also unified between the window behavior and window rules KCMs, and docbooks are adjusted accordingly.
Test Plan:
{F7279685, size=full}
{F7279694, size=full}
Reviewers: #kwin, #vdg, ndavis, filipf, zzag, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, #vdg, ndavis, filipf, romangg
Subscribers: gladhorn, alexeymin, IlyaBizyaev, broulik, hein, hpereiradacosta, GB_2, alexde, davidedmundson, romangg, cfeck, filipf, zzag, ndavis, kwin, kde-doc-english
Tags: #kwin, #documentation
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23415
Summary:
This has been commented out since 2014, I doubt it will come back.
This is a big amount of code, maintenance will be easier without it.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: romangg, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin, #documentation
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23069
