Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-12-01 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 1:02:48 PM CET Marco Martin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:14 AM, David Edmundson > > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> A long time ago, we decided that out of the following options, the > >> first one was bette

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-12-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:14 AM, David Edmundson wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> A long time ago, we decided that out of the following options, the >> first one was better: >> >> - (1) when a window is activated by external entity (a document op

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-12-01 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:57:08 AM CET Ivan Čukić wrote: > David: > > I know I'm getting a tiny bit off topic, but I just had a go at doing > > the proposed kate change. > > > > https://paste.kde.org/p4dymbtjr > > > > It's actually surprisingly hard, this is too hacky to ever merge. > : > :)

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-12-01 Thread Ivan Čukić
David: > I know I'm getting a tiny bit off topic, but I just had a go at doing > the proposed kate change. > > https://paste.kde.org/p4dymbtjr > > It's actually surprisingly hard, this is too hacky to ever merge. :) Yes, we'd need a better way to do that. Somebody mentioned that kate does this for

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-11-30 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Monday, November 30, 2015 9:20:45 PM CET Ivan Čukić wrote: > BUT, a user made a nice point about why the current behaviour is wrong > - it is a bit of a privacy problem - the system can unexpectedly > switch to a different activity and reveal something that the user > didn't want to. I'm having

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-11-30 Thread David Edmundson
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > Hi all, > > A long time ago, we decided that out of the following options, the > first one was better: > > - (1) when a window is activated by external entity (a document opens > in an existing kate instance that is on a different activity to t

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-11-30 Thread Ivan Čukić
> I like that. Nonetheless we should fix applications where we can > (KDE Applications) to have them (Kate for instance supports > multiple windows) spawn a new window on the current activity, Yes, ofc, I'm keeping a bug open in kactivities just to remind me of that. (haven't even moved it to kate

Re: Activity switching on window activation

2015-11-30 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
Hi, > ‎instead of automatically switching to that activity, we might show a notification 'blah blah is open in blah blah activity' with a button to switch to it. I like that. Nonetheless we should fix applications where we can (KDE Applications) to have them (Kate for instance supports multiple

Activity switching on window activation

2015-11-30 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, A long time ago, we decided that out of the following options, the first one was better: - (1) when a window is activated by external entity (a document opens in an existing kate instance that is on a different activity to the current one), kwin switches to the activity - (2) --||--, kwin