From kde-core-devel  Mon Dec 25 00:37:33 2000
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 00:37:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: virtual desktops control module
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97770465316803

On Sunday 24 December 2000 07:48, David Faure wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems popupmenu->preferences does not work for the minipager
> > anymore (for configuring the number of virtual desktops) .
> >
> > It seems this is due to the fact that the virtual desktops
> > module got integrated into the generic desktop module and
> > virtualdesktops.desktop has Hidden=true, which makes it
> > disappear from the sycoca db -> nobody and the pager can't
> > find it :-}
> >
> > Do we perhaps need a DoNotDisplay flag in addition to
> > Hidden, so that the file gets read into the sycoca
> > (and so that kcmshell can find it) but still gets
> > ignore for the kcontrol tree view?
>
> NoDisplay=true already exists, and does exactly that, at least
> in the K menu (maybe kcontrol needs to check for it).

I changed the Hidden to NoDisplay, but now KControl shows it.

> But maybe what we want here is to split those modules again,
> and use the new icon-list based kcmshell for RMB/Configure desktop.

I made the change primarily to organize the control center a bit better and 
to reduce the tree-depth from 3 to 2. (At the moment, "Window Behaviour" is 
the only remaining 3rd level item)

Cheers,
Waldo