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[Emdek]

On 11-10-2009 at 02:59:59 Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
> what sorts of extra windows do you show that aren't in a normal taskbar?  
> why
> do you show them? (I'm curious :)
>
> ...
>
> after looking at the tasks engine, yeah, if these are things  
> libtaskmanager
> filters out it's probably best left the way it is.

Simply for have possibility to manage windows that are not manageable  
using task manager (and are very hard to manage when for example  
minimized). ;-)


>> > as for the cascade/unclutter... is anything else actually using
>> > KWindowListMenu any more? does the code really belong there? is it
>> > something
>> > we have to leave there until kde 5, or is there a more appropriate  
>> place
>> > for
>> > it..?
>>
>> Personally I think that this class should be removed and these methods
>> could be moved to KWindowSystem class (even if not removing that class).
>
> sounds like a good idea to me...

So maybe it should be discussed with KWin developers?
These methods use DBus to ask KWin to execute these actions.
These two methods could be also exposed somehow in libkworkspace to not  
force using of the whole class.