#41 Support desktop as XBar containment

[CraazyT]

When I open up say dolphin (or any app really) and the menu shows in XBar. When I click on say edit the edit menu shows but the rest of the menu disappears and goes back just Plasma as the text and if I click on dolphin again the menu shows back up. But no matter what it doesn't react like it normally does when it's a widget on a panel.

I'm using Chaktra Linux and kde 4.8.2
bespin-svn revision 1487

[Thomas Luebking]

What do you mean by "standalone widget"?
For a plasmoid viewer (plasma-windowed) you can set up a kwin rule to deny focus for this window.

For a "regular" plasmoid on the desktop, things are a bit more complicated:
In general the desktop accepts the focus and with loosing the focus, the current menu holding window will withdraw (what is rather the expected behavior - at least closing the popup would be)
So to change this, the plasmoid would have to massively alter plasma-desktop by
- setting the window to deny the focus (and keep it this way)
- catch _all_ clicks (using an app wide eventFilter)
- ensure the window gets the focus for any click not on the xbar plasmoid

-> I'd get MUCH trouble with the plasma authors for freaking their application ;-)
Right now, i don't have any idea at hand how to cleanly allow xbar plasmoids on the deskop (i btw. thought i had caught that case and yelled a warning?)

[CraazyT]

What I mean by a standalone is just adding XBar to the desktop as a widget not placing it on any panel. You can see a screen shot I did with XBAr just on the desktop here http://fav.me/d4wmuxe I was just trying for a cleaner look ;-)

Thank you for your reply

[Thomas Luebking]

No need to thank me for handling bug reports, that's why there's this tracker ;-)

Ok, this is the mentioned more problematic case.
I guess putting the XBar into a transparent (keep below) panel is no option for other reasons?
mmm... there might be a way... no promise, though.

[CraazyT]

Well I thank you for making bespin, it is awesome and I don't use anything but bespin ;-)

Yeah I kinda figured that, actually that is exactly how I'm doing it now. It's in it's own panel on the top left set to auto-hide. Cool, if there is a way. If not I understand :-)

[Thomas Luebking]

feel free to try r1489 and provide feedback (since i don't use plasma nor desktop containment xbars)

[CraazyT]

Thank you I will huh! O.o if you don't use plasma or XBars what do you use?? I would love not to have to use plasma.

[CraazyT]

r1489 works thank you, I'd still like to know what your using if your not using plasma. I mean what else is there :-)