[rkward-devel] seg fault errors... (improvements..)

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

On Monday 23 April 2007 03:57:49 pm Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2007, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> > In a nutshell, the error is: When "R Console" (or "Command Log") is
> > detached from the main RKWard window the focus doesnot change from the
> > main window to the detached windows properly.
>
> ok, I think I have a solution, now (in SVN). Discarding KMDI ist not yet
> possible with a reasonable effort, we'll have to wait until KDE4 for this.
> Instead, we just do the detaching manually, now. As a consequence, the old
> arrow button on the tool windows is gone. Rather they can now be detached
> using Window->Detach. There was no way to keep the arrow button, and still
> fix the problem.

Nice, good job. Had a quick look. Fixes the seg-fault. I don't think arrow 
button will be an issue. Would it be possible to add the "red" border for the  
in-focus-but-detached windows? Got used to it very much :)

> As another side-effect (this one could be undone, if annoying), tool
> windows can now also be closed using Window->Close. I.e. in general, they
> behave more like regular windows.

Well, what is Window > Close doing? It seems to be "(re-)attaching the window 
if detached" and "hiding it if already attached". The contents of the window 
doesn't seem to be lost. SO, I think we are pretty good on this.

> Let me know about any quirks or usage issues you find.

OK, a few quirks here: the toggling (and focusing) feature of Alt+0/1/2/3/4 
seems to be lost. Alt+0 (even from Windows > Activate > Document tab) doesn't 
seem to work at all. Alt+1/2/3/4 pulls up the relevant window but repeating 
the same key doesn't hide it!

In this context, when a window is closed using Window > Close (or Ctl+W), it 
would nice to set the focus back to an appropriate place (the previous 
window?) rather than being lost (to the "whole" rkward window, which is not 
really useful).

Regards
PK