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Bug 162010 - "show desktop" mode needs to provide visual indication of hidden windows
"show desktop" mode needs to provide visual indication of hidden windows
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105665
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 162016
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-22 18:47 UTC by Carl Worth
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Carl Worth 2004-12-22 18:47:46 UTC 
1. Click "show desktop" applet button, (or press CTRL-ALT-d)
2. All currently open windows become "hidden"

A "hidden" window is in a state disctint from either a visible or a minimized
window. The distinction is most apparent in that only hidden windows become
visibile again if the show desktop mode is toggled off.

However, the current behavior is that hidden windows are provided with no
(or incorrect) visual cues as to their state.

For example, the workspace switcher and the window selector display the windows
as if they were still visible. There should perhaps be bugs opened for those
components, but metacity will need to set the right property first.

(This bug is part of a family of bugs I'm filing now in an attempt to get
"show desktop" to act sanely. I'll try to link the new bugs all together
along with pointers to relevant history when I can figure out how to do that).
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2004-12-22 18:53:43 UTC 
Makes sense, but I can't think of any visual cue for this.  Any suggestions? 
I'm cc'ing usability, hoping that maybe they have some bright ideas.

(Any new bugs you add could probably be marked as blocking bug 155453, though
perhaps it may make sense to just file a new tracker bug that tracks all the
ones you file)
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2004-12-22 19:12:51 UTC 
Wait...I just tried this out.  Hidden windows are given the same cue as
minimized windows--i.e. they disappear from the workspace switcher and are
bracketed in the tasklist.  Isn't that what you want?
Comment 3 Carl Worth 2004-12-22 19:40:58 UTC 
That would be an improvement from what I see.

For me, hidden windows remain visible in the workspace switcher, and unbracketed
the tasklist. This is particularly confusing after "show desktop" is implicitly
disabled when a new window is opened. At that point, the switcher and the
tasklist tell me the window is there, but I just can't see it. ;-)

So, did I find something new, or an old bug that has since been fixed?

I'm running metacity-2.8.6-2 in Fedora Core 3.
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2004-12-22 19:55:14 UTC 
Fixed in bug 105665 (and I forgot about it at first...); it wasn't put on the
stable branch for fear of "risky changes".  It should apply pretty cleanly, though.
Comment 5 Elijah Newren 2004-12-22 19:55:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105665 ***