Clock/Calendar bug (was Plasma::PopupApplet API change proposal)

[Ivan Čukić]

> that's actually partly the definition of "passive", and you can get at this
> API-wise by using KWindowSystem (which is what PopupApplet is doing
Maybe I haven't explained myself. Passive window is a window that is not 
managed by the window manager, that is, it can not have the focus. Is that 
true?

The current implementation of automatic hiding relies on the window losing the 
focus. The side effect, in this case, is that passive windows don't get the 
auto-hide feature since they never have the focus, so they are not able to 
lose it.

And that is OK.

But, the only way [ATM] to make a PopupApplet /persistent/ is to make it 
passive thus making it unable to receive focus.

So, instead of having something like setCloseOnLostFocus(bool value) which 
would do just that, the [libplasma] user needs to make the pop-up passive thus 
inducing the unwanted side-effect.

The use cases for the various states follow:
Format:
passive      auto-close      applet
true            /                     notifications
false           false               calendar, extenders that need focus
false           true                device notifier

We have three different use-cases, but only two options currently.

Cheerio!