I noticed the following problems with the Nautilus desktop in enlightenment,
especially since E treats the background window like an application window.

1. Pressing the close window hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-X by default) closes the Nautilus
desktop window. This can be troublesome if you just closed another window and
were expecting focus to go to a real application window (ie, I just did it and
had to bring it back to life in the preferences screen). This is also a problem
since the window disappears but the preference that says "Use Nautilus to draw
the background window" is still checked. (unchecking and then rechecking the
preference fixes it, but still...)

2. When using sloppy focus, since the window is treated as an application
window, if you move your mouse out of an application window onto the desktop, E
puts the focus on the background, which isn't really consistent with how sloppy
focus is supposed to work. 

3. The nautilus window appears in the alt-tab window list and the gnome pager
list (fixable with a motif hint)

I would guess that the fix to these problems would be to put in some window
hints on the Nautilus desktop window so that E knows how to handle the window by
default.

Keep up the good work, this thing rules!!!



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-15 01:28:45 ----

John, it is with a sense of irony that I'm going to assign you this
Enlightenment bug. ;)




------- Additional Comments From jsh@pixelslut.com 2001-01-23 17:18:13 ----

We can fix problem (1) by making nautilus ignore requests to close its desktop
window (by adding a delete_window signal handler and making it return TRUE
unconditionally)

Problem (2) is most likely unfixable without patching enlightenment. (I had to
add extra logic to sawfish to make its focus module support desktop windows)

(3) can be fixed by adding SKIP_FOCUS to the _WIN_HINTS that nautilus sets on
its desktop window.

It already sets SKIP_TASKLIST and SKIP_WINLIST, so if your gnome pager shows the
desktop window, it's broken (mine doesn't) 




------- Additional Comments From jsh@pixelslut.com 2001-01-25 16:58:34 ----

I've fixed problems (1) and (3) now. I've split (2) into it's own bug for future
tracking (bug #46038)



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-02-09 11:28:31 ----

Duane is now the proud owner for Desktop QA.



------- Additional Comments From duane@eazel.com 2001-03-08 15:45:42 ----

Verified that parts 1 and 3 are fixed on Nautilus Hourly Build Mar 7 20:47:42
2001 (1.0 candidate build)

Part 1 -> Changing the focus to the desktop and hitting Ctrl-W does not close
the desktop. Verified that this DOES close a Nautilus window if one is open and
focused.
Part 3 -> The Nautilus desktop can no longer be seen by either Alt-Tab'ing
through the windows, nor in the Gnome pager.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:51 -------

The original reporter (geoff@geoffdavis.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.