Review Request 123671: add visibleWhileDesktopShown property

[Heiko Tietze]

> On Mai 7, 2015, 11:23 vorm., Marco Martin wrote:
> > I think i would like more either all panels always shown or always hidden.
> > however I'm fine, given the discussion on this if this mechanism is used instead.
> > just a question: wouldn't make more sense to use this in a private component of the show desktop applet instead of giving api for everything? I feel the use case so far is quite limited to a potential single applet.
> > If then more applets come out that would need this, it could be moved in bindings (of which i would prefer in appletinterface rather than appletquickitem)
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     I've talked with Heiko and Thomas about hiding the panel, and they were pretty clear that hiding the panel is an oversight (especially when triggered from a widget in the panel).
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>     I'm strongly for not introducing a whole bunch of API for the distinction "comes from panel or not", but keep the panel visible regardless. This keeps behaviour more consistent and seems to be the common/traditional expectation how a panel should behave in the "show desktop" feature.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     +1 for just keeping the panels visible and be done with it :)

Plasmoids and fix panels are sticky things that must not get minimized or greyed out. The latter is the fact for conkys, for instance, when window/task switcher (alt+tab) is shown. So +1 for the issue (I cannot validate the solution).


- Heiko


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On Mai 7, 2015, 11:14 vorm., Thomas Lübking wrote:
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> (Updated Mai 7, 2015, 11:14 vorm.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Marco Martin.
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> Bugs: 346837, 346933 and 347212
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346837
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346933
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347212
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> plasmoids only need to add
>     Plasmoid.visibleWhileDesktopShown: true;
> to ensure their panel (and thus them) remains visible while showing the desktop
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> This is achieved by setting the panel transient for the (first found, under them and visible) desktop type window.
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> This is mostly relevant for the showdesktop plasmoid (for now)
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> Notice that all bugs are only CC, we need this to be used in the showdesktop plasmoid.
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> Diffs
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>   src/plasmaquick/appletquickitem.h dffbcf3 
>   src/plasmaquick/appletquickitem.cpp 0748a8d 
>   src/plasmaquick/private/appletquickitem_p.h a1ec683 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123671/diff/
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> Testing
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> added/removed (multiple) showdesktop plasmoids - panel transient for correct desktop window (and visible) unless the last is gone (they seem to be deleted with a short random delay?)
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> Thanks,
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> Thomas Lübking
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