Bug 54215

Summary:	window list button toggle
Product:	[Plasma] kicker	Reporter:	Dan Allen <dan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dan Allen 2003-02-06 18:41:02 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

Just like the "Show Desktop" icon on the panel, it would be nice if the window list button acts as a toggle.  This way, you could click once to show your window list and then click it again to hide it.  I can't think of any reason you would want to click on it twice to show it twice.  The only way to get rid of it now is to click on another window.  This feature becomes very convenient when you need to check the window title for a change in status (take gaim for instance, or kopete, which might change the title of the application when a new message arrives).  Since the window list button already shows a depressed state, it would be trivial to make it a "toggle" type of button.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2003-08-27 23:17:13 UTC

actually, you'd be surprised how untrivial it was ;-) this is due to the event order that 
occurs: click on the button, menu is shown, click [ menu loses focus and hides ] on 
button, menu is shown... had to do some delay trickery to get it working.. but it does.

Comment 2 Dan Allen 2003-08-28 03:23:57 UTC

Sorry to trivialize your role.  I do understand that these things are no always
simple and I commend you for your progress.  Thanks for finding a solution to
this problem!