psifidotos / kwin-script-workflow Goto Github PK

It would be quite handy if I could trigger this entering a screen edge instead of clicking a button. Would replace "Desktop Grid" on bottom left corner.

Hi

When opening the kwin script with a second screen that has a different resolution the script does not update its size to be full-screen but still has the old size thus covering only part of the screen.
I am not sure if this can be reproduced by just changing the resolution or one needs a second screen for that. Will try to find out later what is the exact cause.

This will be a list in order to record what is not working in kwin scripting compared to the plasmoid in order to open in bugs.kde.org the feature requests and track their progress:

Title - Bugs Id
writeConfing missing - 317335
set configuraton Dialog - 317336
tooltips not working - 317337
translations missing - 317338
set hot corner from the UI - 317343
hot corner bugs - 317388

From what I underdstand, it would make more sense to drop the KWin script for WorkFlow and just implement those things into a full-screen plasmoid like e.g. login/lock screen.

Is there any reason why the need for a KWin script? In a discussion I had at Akademy, KDE devs told me that KWin scripts aren't meant for such behaviour, but recent Plasma should be completely capable of what you're trying to achieve (and if not such new features can and should be added to Plasma).

P.S. I thoroughly enjoy using WorkFlow. Thank you :]

Activating the KWin script and the next login takes longer. I watched with top() and nothing obvious happens, feels like a "sleep()"...
I would like to use this instead of the plasmoid, find the popup not so pleasing...

Hi

Finally got some time to try out the "fullscreen plamoid". It is really nice and I would maybe switch to it while keeping the plasmoid in the tray but at the moment I cannot because the kwin script is very slow compared to the plasmoid. I mean even moving the VD selection by keyboard lags behind. I think this is just an issue with plasma and its fullscreen containments as I have similar issues with other plasmoids that use a fullscreen component. There are some workarounds to speed things up, like using a non-transparent background but then it misses some of its appeal ;).
Anyways, the kwin script is very nice and like I said it should maybe be the future of the workflows project as managing your desktops is something that should be done in fullscreen mode. In a similar thinking like the zoom-UI of the old plasma/kwin activities. The performance issue is something that will eventually go away as KDE plasma libs become better or will anyways only affect a subset of the users with slower graphic cards. I am having the standard embedded intel graphics chip btw.

Now to the bug ;). When having the script activated through the kwin preferences I get the impression that it steals the active state marking from any other window even when it is not triggered to be shown. This can be seen only if you have the kwin effect "dim inactive" set as that darkens inactive windows. So if I have the workflow script activated I cannot get any window to not be inactive. I can interact with the windows but they are all darkened by that effect. When changing from one desktop to another it takes like one second to change the window from active to inactive and thus make it dark.
Hope you can reproduce.

Hi

Tried the script now again using the dedicated plasmoid for it and love it more and more :). I switched from opengl to raster in kwin and now it seems fast enough so the script is finally usable for me. Think I will switch to the kwin script + plasmoid instead of the original workflow plasmoid.

Some things though, as always. You mention on the here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/WorkFlow+KWin+Script?content=157726

-- added an inline configuration dialog in order to set some settings (the settings can not be stored yet so they are per kwin session)

So all the settings are lost on relogin currently?

But the main thing is that I tried to change the shortcut to trigger the script to something else from the right-click menu of the plasmoid and it does not work. So at the moment I can only use the Ctrl+Meta+Z shortcut. How to change it?