I have activated shade/unshade with double click in title bar.
In leap 15.4 there is an error now with kde4
Windows shading works right but unshade shows the title bar and about 2mm of windows instead if the windows it was…
Any hints?
Because it’s easy and takes little time, any time strange behavior appears out of nowhere in KDE, it’s worth logging out of Plasma, removing the content of ~/.cache/, then logging back into Plasma.
Most of Plasma’s settings are scattered through ~/.config/ as k* or p* files or directories. Removing selected items while logged out can reset various settings to defaults, as many as all, depending on how many you remove. Any you remove will be recreated as needed. There are so many permutations of settings, upstream can’t test them all. Some are pretty simple, and on inspection, evidently pointless to remove.
5.1 KDE 4 and Qt 4 removal
KDE 4 packages will not be part of openSUSE Leap 15.4. Please update your system to Plasma 5 and Qt 5. Some of Qt 4 packages might still remain for compatability reasons. 1179613 – Remove KDE4 and related qt4 libraries.
Sorry, it’s kde5 of course…
Here the versions:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Framework Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Same problem here. Everything in 15.4 fully updated as of today.
I’m not fully up on KDE’s logging to be honest, but I ran plasmashell from a terminal window to get the output and the shade/unshade doesn’t print anything there - no errors.
Also, if you unshade, then shade (without resizing the window first) then unshade, the resulting window is even smaller (title bar only + about 2 vertical pixels), then stays the same if repeated. So it seems to me this is a relative size/value on unshade, not an absolute (albeit with a minimum number of vertical pixels).
It’s a known issue that was fixed in Plasma 5.25.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/1c5215009865c20b18c0f3114b167080cd70a33a
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450582
A workaround is to set window border thickness to 0.
System Settings > Appearance > Window Decorations > “Window border size: No Borders”
It’s worth noting that someone suggested removal of the winshade feature, as seen in the bug.kde.org link.
It would be disappointing if so. There seems to be a trend to remove GUI features that have been available since the early days lately (desktop cube is another example).
When I was first introduced to Linux and X in the late 90’s, one of the things that I really liked was the different ways of interacting with the GUI. Maybe I’m the only one still using them, but I don’t see why small features that have been in place for decades are being lost.
grumble grumble says the old man
I whole heartedly agree, but have been using Unix, NexT, Novell, SuSE and ‘X’ since early 90’s
I use ‘windowshade’ Every Day.
One of the great things about openSuSE/KDE until this ‘new generation’ of ‘coders’, was the real estate that could be had with ‘virtual desktops’, ‘shading’, tiling, among many quick, easy keyboard shortcuts and mouse ‘gestures’.
The trend to do as little as possible is not something I’m used to. An example of this is QML which is making All Applications Nothing more that ‘web page’ GUI’s as Nothing is ‘hard wired’ to the actual application any longer.
I could go on, but the point is, I agree. There are TOO Many unnecessary changes being made in the name of…
Thanks. I’ve always set borders to ‘tiny’ anyways. What’s another pixel or two.
It seems to work. Better than setting all windows with ‘minimum size’ in ‘window rules’.
Landis.