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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Improving task manager interaction
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-08-22 15:18:21
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Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> 
> One thing already specified in the core protocol is the UrgencyHint bit
> of WM_HINTS property. It can be set via XSetWMHints(3).

This isn't listed in my O'Reilly book, but I'll take a look.

> 
> The taskbar could reflect it's presence in a similiar way to the
> Windows taskbar, by blinking the taskbar button to attract attention.

This isn't fine grained enough for me - I want something better.

> 
> On Windows, applications such as mIRC attract the user's attention when
> their name is mentioned in the channel etc. and other applications do
> this when there's an error requiring the user's attention.

That's done by noticing when the window tries to steal the focus.
We /could/ do that, but again I'd rather have something that does
the job properly.

Cheers

Rich.

> 
> The bit should be unset by kwin as soon as the window is focused.
> 
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