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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: 'Send to desktop' shortcut also for kicker?
From:       Ellis Whitehead <kde () ellisw ! net>
Date:       2001-09-24 13:04:51
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The code for sending a window to another desktop is in kwin/workspace.cpp.  
Specifically, void Workspace::sendClientToDesktop( Client* c, int desk ).  
Does anyone know of any special flag that kicker has that can be test for?  
Or should kicker be set to 'sticky'?

On Monday 24 September 2001 03:39 am, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> I just discovered that the meta-alt-fX shortcut keys to send an application
> to another desktop also apply on kicker. (This is a shortcut key for the
> 4-modifier keyboard scheme, the 3-key scheme is too crowded already and
> hence doesn't have a key assigned to this action by default - assign one
> for testing to reproduce in that case.)
>
> Since kicker usually doesn't take focus you won't notice too fast, but it
> is possible to give kicker focus. The easiest is to press the 'show
> desktop' button twice.
>
> Question now is where this problem belongs.
> - Is Kicker allowed to have focus in the first place? If not, then it is a
> kicker bug.
> - The window operations menu (meta-menu for me, alt-f3 for most people) is
> not available for kicker. Sounds like KWin knows due to some window flags
> or so that the Kicker 'window' is special and should be treated different.
> If the 'send to desktop' action is handled by KWin then it's a KWin bug. -
> Ellis' new KDE 2.2 keyboard code might have implemented this action inside
> the keyboard code, instead of in KWin. If so then it is a KGlobalAccel bug.
>
> Although this is one of the more funny bugs to encounter someone might be
> interested to know about it. Who's to blame? ;-)
>
> Martijn
>
> PS: This is against 2.2 branch. Not tried with 3.0

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