I have just upgraded from kde-meta-4.3.2 to kde-meta-4.3.3. I have noticed several regressions, and I have filed a bug for each. -------- With VLC 1.0.3, when I switch the video window to full screen mode, the taskbar (lowest default plasma panel) does not disappear and covers the fullscreen video output. Kaffeine 1.0-pre2 works fine in this respect. -------- emerge --info: Portage 2.1.7.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb 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Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I also noticed that you can once VLC thinks it's in fullscreen mode, you can right click on the taskbar entry, and select Advanced -> Fullscreen, which results in the correct behavior. So apparently the window manager is not automatically aware of VLC's "fullscreenness". Whether it's KWin's or VLC's fault, I don't know.
I am not sure myself. Is turning of and on the fullscreen by shortcut making the taskbar disappear?
To get proper fullscreen with no task bar, you need to tell BOTH VLC and KWin to switch to fullscreen. 1) If you only tell KWin (e.g., right click on taskbar button, advanced, fullsccreen), you get a full-screen VLC player with all the VLC widgets. 2) If you only tell VLC (e.g. doubleclick on video), you keep seeing the taskbar. The correct behavior is that you should only have to do 2). The current behaviour is that you need to do first 2), then 1).
It's a known bug in VLC and it's already fixed in git. Attaching a proper patch for VLC. It would be nice if the patch got pushed to the portage tree, because this bug is really annoying.
Created attachment 211518 [details, diff] patch from upstream
Attaching ebuild respecting the patch.
Created attachment 212064 [details] ebuild for use with the patch
fixed in 1.0.4
