On Tue, 30 May 2000, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> Am Die, 30 Mai 2000 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I tried to solve the problem of  going to another desktop and back and
> > still having focus in the same window. This sort of works as long as you
> > don't use kicker or kdesktop:
> >
> > * When you use kicker to switch desktops, kicker will get focus before
> > switching... so when you switch back kicker will get the focus back. This
> > is not what you want.
> >
> > * When you switch to a desktop with no windows, kdesktop will get focus.
> > When you now switch back, kdesktop will keep focus.. (Based on the
> > rationale that a sticky window should keep focus when you switch
> > desktops... this makes sense for normal windows, but kdesktop/kicker
> > spoil this)
> >
> > It would already help a lot if the window-manager could tell me what the
> > previous window with focus was. Then I can restore the focus to this
> > window in kicker before switching (flickers a bit probably)
> >
> > Is there a way I can prevent kdesktop / kicker from getting focus
> > automatically or via mouseclicks? If you want to use kicker/kdesktop with
> > keyboard only it doesn't help you much if mouse-clicks give it focus.
> > Better define a key-sequence which gives it focus.
> >
> > Otherwise I guess I can hack up some kicker/kdesktop/kwin solution since
> > we don't seem to be using this WM spec thing for kde 2.0 anyway.

Out of curiosity, what is the status of the WM specs? I heard the WM spec 
list is close to a 1.0 release. Matthias, is there a chance that a basic spec 
document will be ready in time for KDE 2.0?

Greetings,
Matthias