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Improvements to Windowing and taskbar

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Saturday, June 28th 2008, 2:58am

Improvements to Windowing and taskbar

Hi everyone,
Back in KDE 3.5.9 I found some annoyances(or may be better called unintuitive behavior) by both the taskbar and the window manager and I hope these are not going to be in 4.x.
  1. Flashing windows in other desktops(other than the current) don't appear and there's no way to tell that a window in another desktop requires attention.
    In GNOME, this used to happen as follows, a window flashing in another desktop appears in the current desktop taskbar as a normal flashing window and as soon as you click it the desktop is switched to that of the flashing window and it gets focus.
    I'm not sure how this can be improved but I think GNOME behavior is fine, in case it's not I have other suggestions:
    1. The relevant desktop, containing the flashing window can flash in the pager applet
    2. A notification can popup from the notification area.
  2. Flashing windows don't show hidden panels/the taskbar, when you set the panel to auto-hide, a flashing window doesn't make it show and consequently you never know a window is flashing until you unhide the panel for some reason or another.
    I was told this is a feature, I don't understand how can this be a feature(how can hiding an alert from the user be a feature) but if it is, it should be adjustable
  3. After showing the desktop, using the button on the panel, any new window makes all the minimized applications appear.
    To reproduce it, go to an empty desktop, open any application, click show desktop then open another application, in case the new application is not maximized or hiding the previous application window you'll easily see that the first application has been restored.
What do you think?

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