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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kicker's show desktop button - what exactly should that do?
From:       Sébastien_Laoût <sebastien.laout () tuxfamily ! org>
Date:       2004-04-24 11:55:07
Message-ID: 1082806838.3951.7.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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Le ven 23/04/2004 à 14:34, Luke Sandell a écrit :
> 1. You can simply undepress the button and forget all the saved positions of 
> the windows minimized by the button.  The problem with this solution is that 
> the user can no longer restore the windows that were previously minimized 
> (60480).
> 
> 2. You can undepress the button and restore all the windows you minimized when 
> the button was depressed.  The problem with this solution is that it is 
> pretty annoying to have all your windows pop back up just because you created 
> or restored one window (67406).
> 
> 3. The third would be to do nothing and simply leave the button in its current 
> depressed state.  The problem with this solution, as noted above, is that it 
> no longer reflects the current state of the desktop.  In addition, if the 
> user wants to show the desktop again, undepress and then depress the button.
> 
> Whatever you choose (I prefer #2) must be consistant.  Currently it is not.  
> Maybe the final solution will be the user to configure it, but this might 
> just make it more confusing.

Me too I prefer the #2 (actual KDE 3.2 behaviour).
It's much more consistent.

I have some icons on my desktop (yes : it isn't a gadget, as somebodys
can think : useful to keep data on hand or launch often used
applications without have to traversal the entire KMenu).
And sometimes, Ctrl+Alt+D and then a click on the icon ("KDE classes
doc" for example) to launch it.
It's pretty cool that KDE 3.2 make "Show desktop" untoggle and restore
all windows ! During KDE 3.1 I was obliged to quickly re-press
Ctrl+Alt+D BEFORE the wanted window is shown :-)
It's a change that programs are long to start on Linux !!! ;-)

The only problem is, when show desktop and then toggle it back is that
the last activated window ISN'T ACTIVATED anymore !
We must manually click it to get focus back as before showing the
desktop : the desktop state is not 'perfectly' restored.

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