Behaviour of "Show Desktop"

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 08 May 2015 10:40:38 you wrote:
> > * Put back the pre-5.3.0 behaviour as default,
> > * Re-think the overall interaction of the show desktop feature and the
> > dashboard, especially in terms of modality and common workflow patterns
> > * Reintroduce the new behaviour as option and polish its corner cases
> 
> so do i revert to the old dashboard implementation? (it's a lot of code that
> got killed and would need to be reintroduce, urgh :)

Or another alternative is to keep this effect for the dashboard, but the 
dashboard alone, since it always was a different beast.
for show desktop applet and hot corners, using the minimize all script, that 
even if we well know it has issues, it's a bit less confusing

Then we can switch back when the effect behaves well with windows that are 
opened while the effect is enabled.

to summarise, what i gather would be needed is:
* windows are hidden with something else than the minimize attribute, in order 
to not lose it
* when a new window appears, that something else does not get applied, and the 
window is visible
* when a window gets activated trough taskbar or alt+tab, that something else 
gets removed and the window gets visible
* when the effect gets disabled, all windows go visible, but not all, since the 
minimized/not minimized state stays exactly as it was before the effect was 
applied

* forgot something?

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Marco Martin