GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597740
After clicking "show desktop" applet and then selecting a window, many windows are expanded
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:08:18 UTC
Binary package hint: gnome-panel Steps to reproduce: 1) Open the following: System > Preferences > Appearance System > Preferences > Startup Applications System > Administration > Hardware Drivers System > Administration > Users and Groups 2) Click the "show desktop" applet 3) Click on Appearance from the window list Result: all the programs come up Expected result: only appearance should come up ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 5 21:21:31 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic SourcePackage: gnome-panel Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686 Originally reported here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/444173
It's actually the way this feature is supposed to be working, but I guess the WM could be changed to not work this way. Which window manager are you using: compiz or metacity?
I am using metacity. Intuitively, clicking "Show Desktop" minimizes all windows, then clicking "Show Desktop" again brings back all windows that were minimized (as it should and does). However I feel that clicking on "Show Desktop" then clicking on one window from the window list should only bring up the one selected window.
komputes +1 @vincent: From my experience the use case of clicking "Show Desktop" twice without doing anything in between is actually quite rare. More typically you want to access something on the desktop like a mounted drive or to paste something in a temporary file etc. Once you've done that and returned to the original window by clicking in the window list, "Show Desktop" remains in the pressed state (which is hardly noticable visually) and results in unexpected windows popping up the next time it is clicked. concrete use case: -have a nautilus and browser window open -press "Show Desktop" -open text file on desktop (and e.g. paste a wikipedia entry for your homework assignment) -go back to browser by clicking on entry in window list -click "Show Desktop" again Result: the nautilus window pops over the browser without taking focus Of course this only happens if a work flow involves the desktop in some way but quickly accessing stuff or creating temporary files is the whole point of having a desktop imho.
Stefan: I'm not arguing against the change :-) I was just explaining why the behavior is like this right now.
If I unterstand the code correctly, all the Show Desktop applet is doing is sending a _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP event to the WM. I think this sounds quite natural for a "Show Desktop" applet :) So this is really not a bug in the applet but in the WMs (at least metacity, compiz) managing the state of their OWN show-desktop-feature wrongly?
(In reply to comment #5) > If I unterstand the code correctly, all the Show Desktop applet is doing is > sending a _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP event to the WM. I think this sounds quite > natural for a "Show Desktop" applet :) > So this is really not a bug in the applet but in the WMs (at least metacity, > compiz) managing the state of their OWN show-desktop-feature wrongly? which is why I moved the bug to metacity...
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