[gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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Since I upgraded to KDE Frameworks 6 I have observed some rather unwanted 
window behaviours.

1. Window Interaction with Gkrellm

DESIRED BEHAVIOUR:
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I have Gkrellm started up by Plasma at login and placed at the top left of the 
screen.  I can't remember where/how I set this up, but at least it is still 
respected by KDE 6.  I've always set Gkrellm via its Configuration > General > 
Properties with:

+ Set sticky state

+ Set window type to be a dock or panel

This allowed the following interaction with other application windows:

- Other windows would launch without overlapping the Gkrellm window.  On an 
otherwise empty desktop they would be placed on the right of it.
- When a window was maximised it did not extend sideways to cover the whole 
screen beyond the position of the the Grkellm.
- When I dragged a window to force it to infringe the boundary of the Gkrellm 
window, the Gkrellm would overlap the dragged window.

UNDESIRED BEHAVIOUR:
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With KDE Frameworks 6, Gkrellm is not recognised/respected fully as a dock 
panel:

Other application windows will maximise to the full width of the screen and be 
overlapped by Gkrellm.  When the maximised window is a terminal, this can be 
quite unhelpful.

If I unset Gkrellm as a dock, then when I launch some application window 
Gkrellm will be overlapped indiscriminately.

I tried playing with various Gkrellm and KDE window settings, but I can't get 
it to interact with other windows in KDE 6 as it did in KDE 5.

2. Kmail compose window
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The kmail composer window launches at the same size as the main kmail window.  
If I shrink it down to a more manageable size, then next time I launch kmail 
the main window is as small as I had shrunk its composer window.  In KDE 5 the 
kmail main window and composer window sizes were dealt as separate windows 
with their own size settings.  Now one seems to inherit the dimensions of the 
other.


Have you experienced anything similar?  How could I revert this unwanted 
window management behaviour to what KDE 5 window management was like?

PS. Extra bonus points for someone who can offer an explanation why kmail 
spellcheck suddenly started applying US English as opposed to the actual 
setting of British English.  o_O

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