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[kwayland] Highlight Window Protocol
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Task manager allows to highlight windows on mouse over. This uses a KWindowEffects API. We need to extend the api to support it.

sitter added a project: Plasma on Wayland.Nov 7 2016, 1:40 PM
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hein added subscribers: graesslin, hein.May 8 2017, 12:05 AM

I looked into this, and I would like to start with adding a new highlighted state to the PlasmaWindow protocol similar to the way things like shaded and skiptaskbar were added. I'd then move the highlighting logic out from the Task Manager applet backend plugin into libtaskmanager and use KWayland for the implementation in WaylandTasksModel. Does this sound good?

The old KWindowEffects API for this theoretically had explicit support for atomically highlighting multiple windows at once via its signature, but I'm not sure this needs preserving in pfactice.

MayeulC added a subscriber: MayeulC.Sep 14 2018, 1:56 PM

The old KWindowEffects API for this theoretically had explicit support for atomically highlighting multiple windows at once via its signature, but I'm not sure this needs preserving in pfactice.

Could this be needed for highlighting modal children windows at the same time? I am not sure what is the intended behaviour, here.