[PROBLEM] New systray notifications and kwin

[Dan Meltzer]

2008/10/22 Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuzkde at gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> I just found a real problem with new notifications system. Let me describe
> it.
> New notifications are shown using a PopupApplet which is a full-blown window
> from the KWin POV. So what happens is the following:
>
> dimsuz is touch-typing with amazing speed in his kmail window. at the same
> time he often alt-tabs to kopete to chat with friends, and also types much
> in konversation in #plasma channel :)
> At the same time a lot of notifications arrive, and guess what - each of
> them steals focus from dimsuz's current input widget! Because each of them
> has a default window role.
> What do you think dimsuz thinks on each notification appearance? Yeah, he
> thinks:
>
> "#%#!!!?#?!!!"
>
> And then clicks back on the widget he is typing into :)
>
> I tried to fix this one, but quickly found that systray (being a
> PopupApplet) just uses PopupApplet::popup() function.
> That is systray has no control on the dialog that pops up.
> I think that it should be able to somehow tell the popup() that this
> particular popup should be of Qt::Tooltip type or something like that.
>
> So I'm thinking what's the best way to do this? A parameter to popup()
> function? A new function PopupApplet::setPopupAsTooltip(bool)? something
> else?
>
> Note, that i think this is a problem that really needs to be fixed, as it
> may potentially annoy a lot of our users :)

Readers digest version for those of you that don't have lotsa free time:

Popup notifications should not steal focus, ever.  They are the new
round of passivePopups and should behave as so.

Dan,
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitry.
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