On 28-Feb-99 Matthias Ettrich wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, you wrote: >>Kdevelopers - >> >>You guys have done incredible work. >> >>Revision 1.79 of kpanel.C introduced (under the notation "bugfix") a distinct >>and odd user-visible change in the handling of left-button clicks on taskbar >>buttons. I haven't found any discussion of the change in the mailing list >>archives. >> >>Anyway, after the change, if I begin with a single open activated window, on >>the current desktop, and left-click on the taskbar button/icon, the window >>will iconify. If I left-click the taskbar button again, the window will be >>restored to the desktop. A sort of toggle. If the window is active, it >>will once again be restored the next time the button is clicked. However, >>if non-iconfified and non-active, it will be raised, but not activated. >>When there is only one window on the desktop, raising is irrelevant, so >>it looks like nothing happens. If there are a number of windows open, and >>you click on a taskbar button, the window will be restored and raised if >>it is an icon or an inactive window, and iconified iff it is the active >>window. >> >>Confused? I was. This behavior is inelegant. If it is intentional, then >>there should be an option to suppress it. Left-clicking on the taskbar >>button should invoke a simple rule, be it "always raise", "always activate", >>or "always raise and activate". >> >>I guess there is interaction with the window manager concerning whether >>the window is always activated, but this shouldn't keep the left-click >>from following a simple principle. > > It does (actually Win98 now follows KDE and does the same ;-). May it be that > you are using one of the weird classic focus follows mouse policy? These > are in KDE for people who don't use taskbars. Please try again with click to > focus or KDE focus follows mouse: > > Inactive or iconified window => raise and activate > active window => iconify > > Matthias I dislike this feature, too. Seems it is for those people having only a two button mouse, since the middle mouse button does already iconify and deiconify. I'm using KDE focus follows mouse and used the taskbar to raise a window which was only partly visible. Now this is quite useless. I did not take a look at the code, yet. Is it that difficult to make it configurable ? If you don't want to do it, Matthias, do you mind if I do the change. Regards, Chris -------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Neerfeld