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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: why dialogs are not windows..
From:       Thomas Zander <zander32 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-04-06 14:05:41
Message-ID: ed64b31a0504060705483b0635 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Apr 6, 2005 12:20 PM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 of April 2005 09:51, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > I just ran into this very annoying usage pattern;
> > on desktop 1 start "configure desktop" from the contex menu
> > wait 30 min :)
> > on desktop 4 start "configure desktop" from context menu.
> > Nothing happens, no window is shown..
> 
>  This looks like a bug.
ok
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103359

> > I confused why dialogs are not shown in the show windows (MMB/Alt-F5) list
> > as well as not in kasbar.
> > Can anyone tell me?
> 
>  The answer seems to be simply that whoever coded the Alt+F5 window did it
> that way, and people doing the taskbar or other elements did it differently.

Can I file a bugreport to them, or will they just come back to you (as
the kwin hacker) saying that the information needed to only show
toplevel frames/dialogs is not available for those apps?

> There's an entry in my KDE4 TODO for KWin to
> clean this up, and first of all to find out how it actually should be. If
> KWin is going to have tabs or whatever for KDE4 this needs to be done anyway.
> Hmm. I guess it's about time to get a pen and a paper and start drawing a lot
> about how it could be. Anybody willing to help?

you mean the frame/dialog relations and how they should affect each other?
The next time we meet real-life I'd love to get into that.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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