Review Request 127374: Fix taskbar flicking when opening Plasma popups

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On März 14, 2016, 7:10 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > Doesn't https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/149013/ fix that?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Oh wow thanks. I'd just started redoing the same patch. I could have wasted quite some time.
>     
>     David Rosca is super awesome.
>     
>     However, this is still a better way of handling the Qt 5.5 case than what we do currently so I'd still like to merge it.
> 
> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
>     I investigate to see that cause Yakuake stays in taskbar *sometimes*.

+1 for the patch

My comment was more saying "someone already did a Qt patch" but I was too lazy to type that on my phone :)


- Kai Uwe


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On März 14, 2016, 6:45 nachm., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated März 14, 2016, 6:45 nachm.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> When we show a Qt window it resets all wm_states, including the
> SKIP_TASKBAR state that Qt doesn't support see
> QXcbWindow::setNetWmStates
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> In order to set the flag we need to do it after Qt has mapped the
> window. (after a showEvent)
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> Dialog previously did this using ExposeEvent which we know will happen after show.
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> However:
> 1) This is a rather random fix
> 2) It will be called after TaskManager has been notified of a new window
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> By merging into the same event we can make sure the flag is set before
> the task manager processes the new window. This means task manager will always skip plasma popups.
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> A better fix will obviously be patching Qt to not reset flags it doesn't know about 
> and then we can set this flag in the ctor. I shall try and do that for Qt 5.7.
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> BUG: 332024
> REVIEW:
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> Diffs
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>   src/plasmaquick/dialog.cpp 56f39c0740a1e32a9588e7461dcb45aab3fe9e85 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127374/diff/
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> Testing
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> Added debug in libtaskmanager, the window flags are always correct for the new window.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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