"Show desktop" button fonctionnality

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Tuesday, April 13th 2004, 9:19pm

Hello, I am french, and I will try to explain my problem...

I am using KDE 3.2, I am very happy it is fastest that older KDE on my AMD K6-III 550 !

My question is about the "show desktop" button.
Let's imagine I have Mozilla opened, and I want to access desktop to open my home directory.
So I click on the "show Desktop" button in the task bar, and all the opened application go down in the task bar. Every thing is OK. But when after that I click on my Home directory on the desktop, all the minimized applications pop up !

I thing it's normal because when we click the "show desktop" button, we can see that it stay "pushed".

Can we configure this to have the old fonctionnality ? i. e. click the "show desktop" button and all the applications stay in the task bar even if we open another application ( with a desktop link or other )

If it's not possible, how can I create a new "special button" which can do this fonctionnality ?

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Cyril Haenel
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m4ktub

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Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 11:31am

Well, I far as I know it is not easily done. You can't configure the behaviour since it is hardcoded.

I think you can't even reproduce the show desktop button behaviour from the shell (one woud have to iterate over K windows).

For those who are not afraid of code:
kdebase/kicker/core/showdesktop.cpp
look for 'showDesktop(bool)'

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chaenel

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Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 12:53pm

I understand..

But I think it should be good to have the 2 buttons version.

One button "show desktop", and "minimise all application" for the other.

If I want to change the actual button functionnality, if I understand, I have just to modify and compile the 'kicker' application ?

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Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 1:00pm

Yes I also think this should be configurable. Maybe you should post a feature request.
I my case I find the default (and only) behaviour very handy.

My common scenario is: I'm working, need check something in a document, show desktop, open document, everything like before and my document is opened.

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chaenel

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Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 9:15pm

In fact, this functionnality don't need to be configured on this button.

The best is to have another button called "minimise all application".

After the user can add it or not on the task bar with right click, add special button, etc...

You talki about post a feature request, how to do that ?

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Cyril

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m4ktub

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Thursday, April 15th 2004, 6:21pm

Just go to KDE Bugs and choose Enter new wish, bug or crash.

It's a link at top right or at bottom right under Reports. You must create an account if you have not one yet.

Then somewhere in the middle of the forms you may choose the severity of the report, choose "wishlist"

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chaenel

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 9:43am

Thank you very much for your help, the wish is done

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 10:12am

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Thank you very much for your help, the wish is done

If I were you I'd post a link to the bug report so users interested in this change can vote for it...

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 11:31am

That votting system is for real? The most voted wishes are the ones implemented?
I have no idea of the developers commitment to the bugs.kde system ...

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 11:50am

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That votting system is for real? The most voted wishes are the ones implemented?

I have no idea of the developers commitment to the bugs.kde system ...

- It certainly gives the developers an idea of which bugs are the most annoying in practice and which wishes are the most requested.
- Voters are informed by email if any new comments are added to a bug. So you can keep track of how it progresses. I guess testers are welcome, too, once a wish is implemented and this way they get to know about it early.

So I think this _is_ useful.

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chaenel

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Friday, April 16th 2004, 8:07pm

Good idea !

The link :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79711

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chaenel

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Saturday, April 17th 2004, 11:49am

To m4ktub :

In your first answer to my topic, you say that you think we can't reproduce the old "show desktop" button fonctionnality from the shell.
What do you mean ? It's possible for a batch file to create graphical application with windows, widget, and other ?

Where can I find some informtion on that ? If we can do that, I am very interested, that can be very well to design small application !

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