Wobby windows: deform only corner being dragged and gradual release
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Description
I'm coming from KDE and testing out the all important wobbly windows. So I'm comparing my experience to their implementation that I'm used to.
I notice when resizing a window, the entire window deforms like it is being expanded or compressed from all sides at once.
E.g.:
- grab bottom right corner of window and drag away from the window to expand:
- Observe: left side and right sides of the window expand outwards like two hands stretching a sheet
- Expected: stretching only from the bottom right corner with the rest of the window following (similar to how it looks moving the window from this corner with Super+LMB)
- grab bottom right corner of window and drag to make smaller:
- left side and right side of the windows compress inwards
The other thing is when releasing the mouse button, the window mid-wobble seems to almost instantly snap to a rectangle. It would be nice if it naturally finished it's wobble animation itself so it's less jarring.
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Research direction
The report names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the window resize and wobbly-animation implementation, then compare corner-only deformation and post-release animation with the reported KDE behavior; done means both interactions behave as described without snapping.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100