From kde-core-devel  Thu May 24 21:10:08 2001
From: Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:10:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KGesture and DCOP Interfaces
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99073872531807

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:58:33PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > dcop konqueror "konqueror-mainwindow#1/action/back" activate
> > 
> > does what you expect :-)
> 
> But how do I know if I should use 'konqueror-mainwindow#1' or 
> 'konqueror-mainwindow#9'? For this to work there should also be a method to 
> reliably find the mainwindow based on some criteria. (But which?) Do I get 
> the name of the mainwindow when I open a new one?
 
The createNewWindow method in KonquerorIface used to return a dcop
reference to the newly created window. But this was changed to a void
because of some weird crashes in kfmclient, IIRC.

I agree that it would be nice to have a better method for selection of the
mainwindow (better than the current one of just returning a complete list
of all windows) . Maybe a stupid idea, but: Isn't there a way to detect
the current active desktop? Then we could perhaps add a method which returns
the mainwindow on the current active desktop (and if there are multiple on the
current then maybe the topmost one) . 
(I could imagine that this is a common case when trying to script it)

Bye,
 Simon