[Panel-devel] Plasma and the window manager (Re: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/plasma)

[Andre Duffeck]

Am Freitag, 16. November 2007 16:11:02 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> On Friday 16 of November 2007, Andre Duffeck wrote:
> > SVN commit 737422 by duffeck:
> >
> > - use Qt:FramelessWindowHint flag in combination with Net::KeepAbove for
> >   the view and the AppletBrowser instead of
> > Qt::X11BypassWindowManagerHint and Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint flags. That
> > fixes issues such as keyboard input not working.
>
>  I'm pretty sure I've already told Aaron, but let me repeat for everybody:
>
>  When you get some fancy ideas about toplevel windows (and this is bound to
> happen with you Plasma people), could you, pretty please, first tell me
> about it or mail kwin at kde.org? Getting interaction with the window manager
> in more complicated cases right seems to be non-trivial for most people, so
> doing this will save you the trouble of randomly shuffling the flags until
> it seemingly works. Also, since there's a fair chance it won't work quite
> right anyway, it will save me all the work of finding out about it,
> guessing what it's actually meant to be and trying to fix it for real.
> Everybody wins.

Sure, I'll ping you on IRC.

André