Does anyone know how windows are prevented from maximizing over the KDE kicker? In time I'd like to replace kicker with something a little bit fancier, but would like to prevent windows from maximizing over this launchbar. Any thoughts?
The window manager, kwin, which is the program which controls how big windows become, etc., has an agreement with certain apps about how it should behave when a window is maximised. kwin and kicker between them define how big the "rest of the screen" is, and that's the value kwin uses when it wants to maximise a window. As long as your replacement panel program implements the protocol which allows kwin to understand how the screen should be used, it'll work the same. The protocol is obviously open, so it's just a matter of coding. :o) -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003