Re: Spacebar does not raise command window with wxt terminal (also qt)

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

[sigh] a correction after more testing:

If I force the definition of HAVE_GTK in config.h, then it does work
for
	KDE4 + wxWidgets 2.8 + gdk2

(the actual raise is done by a call into gdk2)
I'm not certain why the autoconfigure script wasn't setting HAVE_GTK
in my earlier tests.

So the coverage is a little better than I thought, although the 
configure script may need some tweaking.

	Ethan



On Friday, 20 June, 2014 09:53:36 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:33:17 -0700
> Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I looked into this a bit.
> 
> Thanks for doing the research. I think
> this clarifies a lot. 
> 
> Is there any hope to fix this? I think this
> should treated as a bug. (It also USED to 
> work, sometime ago, if my memory serves me 
> right...)
> 
> > Here is a the relevant section of code in wxt_gui.cpp:
> > 
> > =====
> > /* FIXME : this code should be deleted, and the feature removed or
> > handled differently,
> >  * because it is highly platform-dependant, is not reliable because
> >  * of a lot of factors (WINDOWID not set, multiple tabs in
> > gnome-terminal, mechanisms
> >  * to prevent focus stealing) and is inconsistent with global
> > bindings mechanism ) */ void wxtPanel::RaiseConsoleWindow()
> > {
> > #ifdef USE_GTK
> >    [...  special case code for KDE3]
> >    [...  special case code for Gnome console]

         [ ...  code for gdk2/gtk2]

> > #endif
> >    [...  special case code for Win32]
> >    [...  special case code for OS2]
> > =======
> > 
> > Furthermore the definition of USE_GTK depends on configuration tests
> > for the locally installed gdk.h/gtk.h headers, if any.   I have tried
> > building against gtk3 headers -  no success.
> > 
> > So there  is no wxt terminal support for raise console window on
> > linux unless you are using  gtk2 and either  KDE3 or the Gnome
> > console terminal. I will add this to the docs somewhere (maybe "known
> > limitations"?)
> > 
> > 
> > As to the qt terminal, Tatsuro Matsuoka is correct that despite what
> > the terminal help text says there is no special treatment of the
> > space key in the actual code. 
> > 
> > So basically this feature exists consistently only on Windows or X11.
> > And even the X11 support may depend on the window manager being used. 
> > The documentation should be amended to note that it is not generally
> > available on linux.
> > 
> > 	Ethan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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