Re: Patch to support EWMH show-desktop

Michael Toomim writes:
|> - I don't like the overloading of the iconified property
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|The reason to do this is that a window looks iconified when you're 
|showing the desktop.  Clicking on the window's taskbar icon should 
|uniconify the window (and consequently unshow the desktop).

I don't use the taskbar, but to me it looks more as though I had
switched to an empty workspace..

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|With either of those implementations, though, is it possible to make the 
|windows unhide when you click on a taskbar icon?  Another design goal 
|was to unhide all windows when a new one is opened: if you hide all 
|windows to open a folder on your desktop, it's confusing if the folder 
|doesn't show up on your screen after you double-click it.

yeah, I agree it would be better if it worked like that, possibly the
easiest way to achieve that is like this:

patch
Description: Text document

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|Also, the current implementation (the one is v1.3) doesn't focus the 
|last window after a call to "hide-desktop".  So if I hide the desktop 
|and then show it again, the desktop is still focussed.  It would be nice 
|if it reverted the focus to the state it used to be in.

this seems to work for me, focus isn't affected. i.e. toggling "show
desktop" without focusing another window leaves focus with the window
that was originally active,

        John