popupApplet and window focus

[Alexis Ménard]

A popup take by definition the focus in Qt...That's how it is... Since a
virtual keyboard is a particular use case, as i comment let popup applet
neutral and set the flag you need on it in plasmaboard.

2009/5/25 Björn Ruberg <bjoern at ruberg-wegener.de>

> On Montag 25 Mai 2009, you wrote:
> > On Monday 25 May 2009, Björn Ruberg wrote:
> > > >> First issue:
> > > >> Plasmaboard uses the class PopupApplet. When clicking on the icon,
> the
> > > >> keyboard appears. This keyboard must stay unfocused! So I used the
> > > >> method setPassivePopup(true). That worked great. But when I upgraded
> > > >> my working machine from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 Preview it stopped
> > > >> working. Since then the opening keyboard steals focus from the
> window
> > > >> and is useless. This may be a bug invented in qt-4.5 or kde-4.2.2 .
> > > >> setPasivePopup is rarely used, so it is possible that no one
> noticed.
> > > >
> > > >well, it's more like "it's totally cool for popups to have focus" ...
> > > > we'll need some work-around for this for Plasmaboard. either that or
> > > > else Plasmaboard will have to provide and manage it's own popup
> instead
> > > > of relying on PopupApplet for this ....
> > >
> > > Sorry, didn't got that completly.
> > > The passive popups worked already. "Suddenly" they are not working.
> >
> > mmmmm.. define "not working"; they changed a bit in how they work, but
> that
> > was to fix other issues. passive doesn't mean "can't get focus"
>
>
> Okay. "not working" means it steals focus from the last window.
>
>
> > > Please help me at least with issue one. I think it's quite important to
> > > have a working virtual keyboard for KDE when 4.3 comes out. Cheap
> >
> > i wonder if it would be possible to track the last-focused window and
> just
> > send x events directly to it.
>
>
> Probably we would find a way within kwin. But it must work with plasma and
> other window managers, too. So my way is the bullet proof and always
> working
> one.
>
>
> > but yes, otherwise .. hm ... i think that the
> > keyboard would need to handle it's own popup window and ensure it never
> > gets focus. putting that into passive popup as a general case situation
> > will screw up other widgets that do need focus; perhaps we can fold it
> into
> > popupapplet for 4.4 if there's a general need for it.
>
>
> Well, what about a "setVeryPassivePopup"-method?
>
>
> But before I put the work into investigation how to write my own popup
> (probably I just need to subclass and set some window-flag?), the question
> remains why setPassivePopup suddenly changed its behaviour - or why its
> behaviour is different between Fedora and Ubuntu.
>
>
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