From kde-devel  Wed May 31 19:31:43 2000
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 19:31:43 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Feature idea/app-starting
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=95980502812642

#if Bill Soudan
> I spent some more time browsing through the code.  Here's the best
> solution I can come up with, which should work for all X apps:
> 
> 1.  In addition to setting the LD_PRELOAD env variable, KRun::run also
> sets a KWIN_INITIAL_DESKTOP env variable, or something to that effect.

Sounds ok.

> 2.  Rik's libkmapnotify code reads this env variable, and sets some sort
> of property on the initial window which indicates the correct desktop.

Yep, should be possible.

> 3.  KWin's Client::manage method reads this property to determine the
> initial desktop, instead of the current method:
> 
>     // initial desktop placement
>     if ( info ) {
>         desk = info->desktop;
>     } else {
>         // assume window wants to be visible on the current desktop
>         desk =  workspace()->currentDesktop();
> 
>         // KDE 1.x compatibility
>         desk = KWM::desktop( win );
>     }  

Yep.

> Sounds straightforward to me, provided it's okay for me to call
> KWM::currentDesktop in KRun?  Would I be horribly violating any sort of
> modularity?  KRun already depends on kdecore.

No, that's OK. kwm.h is in kdecore and kio depends on that.

> If someone more experienced than I can give this a thumbs up, I'll get a
> patch out ASAP (or even just commit the code :)

Yep, if you can do either that would be great - saves me work ;)

> Another question - does any other desktop environment/window manager out
> there do this?  I'm so KDE biased, I have no idea :)

I'm not sure - I don't use multiple desktops :)

Rik
 
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