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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: confusing taskbar change
From:       Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld () home ! ivm ! de>
Date:       1999-02-28 11:55:04
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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

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Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de>
                   <chris@kde.org>

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