A popup take by definition the focus in Qt...That's how it is... Since a virtual keyboard is a particular use case, as i comment let popup applet neutral and set the flag you need on it in plasmaboard.
2009/5/25 Björn Ruberg <bjo...@ruberg-wegener.de> > On Montag 25 Mai 2009, you wrote: > > On Monday 25 May 2009, Björn Ruberg wrote: > > > >> First issue: > > > >> Plasmaboard uses the class PopupApplet. When clicking on the icon, > the > > > >> keyboard appears. This keyboard must stay unfocused! So I used the > > > >> method setPassivePopup(true). That worked great. But when I upgraded > > > >> my working machine from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 Preview it stopped > > > >> working. Since then the opening keyboard steals focus from the > window > > > >> and is useless. This may be a bug invented in qt-4.5 or kde-4.2.2 . > > > >> setPasivePopup is rarely used, so it is possible that no one > noticed. > > > > > > > >well, it's more like "it's totally cool for popups to have focus" ... > > > > we'll need some work-around for this for Plasmaboard. either that or > > > > else Plasmaboard will have to provide and manage it's own popup > instead > > > > of relying on PopupApplet for this .... > > > > > > Sorry, didn't got that completly. > > > The passive popups worked already. "Suddenly" they are not working. > > > > mmmmm.. define "not working"; they changed a bit in how they work, but > that > > was to fix other issues. passive doesn't mean "can't get focus" > > > Okay. "not working" means it steals focus from the last window. > > > > > Please help me at least with issue one. I think it's quite important to > > > have a working virtual keyboard for KDE when 4.3 comes out. Cheap > > > > i wonder if it would be possible to track the last-focused window and > just > > send x events directly to it. > > > Probably we would find a way within kwin. But it must work with plasma and > other window managers, too. So my way is the bullet proof and always > working > one. > > > > but yes, otherwise .. hm ... i think that the > > keyboard would need to handle it's own popup window and ensure it never > > gets focus. putting that into passive popup as a general case situation > > will screw up other widgets that do need focus; perhaps we can fold it > into > > popupapplet for 4.4 if there's a general need for it. > > > Well, what about a "setVeryPassivePopup"-method? > > > But before I put the work into investigation how to write my own popup > (probably I just need to subclass and set some window-flag?), the question > remains why setPassivePopup suddenly changed its behaviour - or why its > behaviour is different between Fedora and Ubuntu. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > >
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