Version: (using KDE 4.2.1) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Reproducibility: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Open KTorrent 2. Right-click on the title bar of KTorrent 3. Advanced->Special Application Settings… 4. Check the "Minimized" checkbox, select "Apply Initially" in its drop-down box, and select the other checkbox. 4. OK 5. File->Quit 6. Launch ktorrent again, this time with the URL of a torrent containing multiple files as a command-line argument. (This can be done manually from the command line, or by clicking on a torrent file from a web browser, provided the web browser and/or KDE is configured to open torrents with KTorrent.) Observed behaviour: 7. The KTorrent icon appears in the system tray, but no KTorrent windows appear. Clicking or double-clicking on the system tray icon has no effect. The user's only recourse is to manually kill ktorrent from the command line. Expected behaviour: 7. The KTorrent icon should appear in the system tray, and KTorrent's "Opening <torrent-name>…" modal file selection dialog should appear. Perhaps this is a bug with KTorrent, but I suspect it is in fact a KWin problem affecting all applications which start with a modal dialog or other window that cannot be minimized. The solution? The "Minimize" special applications setting geometry option should not apply to non-minimizable windows. Otherwise the user ends up with minimized windows which do not appear in the taskbar or anywhere else, and are thus completely inaccessible.
Cannot reproduce with KDE 4.5: the step 7 opens the ktorrent dialog (with ktorrent main window NOT minimized). It looks correct.
there've been major changes regarding the handling of modal dialogs which likely prevent this behavior (notably a modal client can be shown w/o it's master) Because of this and comment #1 this bug is considered fixed.