neuromorph
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3 weeks ago Hello,
Agreed! This is a pet peeve for me as well. However, it is not clear how the (x, 0) can be efficiently implemented.
Under vanilla GNOME you don't need to hit exactly on the top-bar's widget to select/click on them. When the cursor is all the way on top, you are hovering over the widget & can click to expand.
Gnome has the Panel touching the top edge of the screen. The buttons are inside the Panel and are also spanning full height and so touch the top edge. They've added a few pixels wide transparent border to buttons to create illusion of narrower buttons inside the panel. So, when the pointer is at the top edge, it is also on the button and it works that way. When we move the Panel away from the edge, like in this extension, the buttons can no longer reach the top edge and so they don't get the pointer event signals.
In KDE the floating panels respect Fitt's law in the same way; go all the way to the edge of the screen, the widgets are still selected.
Good to know. I am not aware of how KDE is doing it but then again their Panel implementation is likely different from that of Gnome.
The idea then would be to listen to pointer events on the panel/box and manually handle the event to open a menu if pointer was above it. Tracking pointer through js may not be efficient so maybe only clicks. I will try something on this line. Feel free to share if you have any specific ideas.
This is also a reason I personally don't use 'Vertical padding' option in the extension and keep zero margin in WMax bar so that at least when a window is maximized (which is most of the time) I can click on the top edge to open a menu :)
Thanks! The extension is really great!
Thank you! And thanks for raising this issue, let's see if we can fix it or at least make it better.
saligari
Under vanilla GNOME you don't need to hit exactly on the top-bar's widget to select/click on them. When the cursor is all the way on top, you are hovering over the widget & can click to expand.
In KDE the floating panels respect Fitt's law in the same way; go all the way to the edge of the screen, the widgets are still selected.
This does not happen with this extension (at least on my pc) but I suspect this is not a bug, but the way it is now supposed to work. It is a shame as it requires more fine control to select the widgets as they exist in (x,y) instead of (x,0). There is never going to be something above the widgets to select so there is no reason why they should not be select-able when the cursor is in the (proper) x,0 spot.
Thanks! The extension is really great!