Plasma and KWin Integration

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Lucas Murray wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Lucas Murray
>
> <lmurray at undefinedfire.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Richard Moore <richmoore44 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> 10. Alt-Tab to desktop and panel
> >>
> >> The desktop and panel need to be able to get the keyboard focus to allow
> >> users without keyboards to activate and use them.
> >
> > I like it. How can KWin detect if Plasma is running (So KWin can run
> > without Plasma) and trigger the dashboard when selected? For things
> > like box switch and the like we will also need a thumbnail of the
> > dashboard. As X doesn't create thumbnails of non-existent or unmapped
> > windows the dashboard will need to always be mapped and placed behind
> > the desktop window. Doing this will also solve the white screen issue
> > when the dashboard is shown.
>
> Oh wow, how did I manage to completely misread that? I somehow thought
> you were talking about "Alt-Tab to dashboard" and not the desktop or
> panel. My bad, my bad. ^_^;
>
> To answer the original proposal: Is it really necessary to have
> keyboard focus on the panel? The desktop sure, but the panel? What's
> on the panel that isn't already accessible by other (Or possible)
> shortcuts?
it's for plasmoids that could have a text field in the panel, even the 
calendar text field isn't usable right now if there is even a single window 
open
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