tasks widget testing before i backport

[Jeffery MacEachern]

Hi Aaron,

Given the lack of reply here, does this still need testing? I might
not be able to do it right away, but I'd be glad to help.

Cheers,
 - Jeffery MacEachern



On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:31, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi ...
>
> i committed two sets of changes yesterday to libtaskamanger and the tasks
> widget:
>
> * a change to libtaskmanager that re-groups windows that were previously
> ungrouped because they were marked with 'demands attention'. this is obviously
> a bugfix, but the change to accomplish it, while not tricky, was a bit bigger
> than i expected at first.
>
> * a change to the tasks widget that marks the window list popups with
> Qt::Popup. there was a comment in the code that maybe one day we could use
> Qt::Popup for them, but that for now (when the comment was written) handling
> it ourselves was working better for "focus purposes". in testing with
> Qt::Popup, i found no focus issues (even keyboard focus with tab, shift tab,
> etc. works nicely) so i change it to use Qt::Popup since that makes clicking
> outside the popup _always_ close it
>
> both of these things were bugging me for quite a while, so i'm happy to have
> them fixed. however, they are both more-than-small changes and this is a
> rather important widget in terms of people relying on it working well ;)
>
> so i'd appreciate it if as many of you as possible can update
> kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager and
> kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks and pay attention to how things
> are working. if i don't hear of any regressions in the next couple of days,
> i'll backport.
>
> both sets of changes are working rather nicely here, but one person really
> isn't enough for this .. :)
>
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