(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kwin Version: KDE 3.0.0 Severity: normal Installed from: FreeBSD Ports Compiler: Not Specified OS: FreeBSD OS/Compiler notes: Same problem observed under Linux. If a double click is performed on the system icon in a KWin title bar to quickly close the window the second click is passed to the underlying window including the desktop. This is counter-intuitive and makes the MWM window style practically unusable as this design does not incorporate a separate close button. The problem is observed both on Linux and FreeBSD and in KDE version 2.2 as well as 3.0. (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
On Wednesday 07 August 2002 10:28 t.stadelmann1@physics.ox.ac.uk wrote: > Package: kwin > Version: KDE 3.0.0 > Severity: normal > Installed from: FreeBSD Ports > Compiler: Not Specified > OS: FreeBSD > OS/Compiler notes: Same problem observed under Linux. > > If a double click is performed on the system icon in a KWin title bar to > quickly close the window the second click is passed to the > underlying window including the desktop. The double click-to-close on the icon button was found counter-intuitive and broken from a GUI design and HCI standpoint by one of the kwin contributors and by the kwin development team. Thus it was disabled and taken out in the latest version of KWin from all window styles. > This is counter-intuitive and makes the MWM > window style practically unusable as this > design does not incorporate a separate > close button. I'm not aware of an MWM window style in the KDE CVS. If it is a style you get from outside the KDE sources please report the unusability issue directly to its author as it is less probable that the said author would read the kwin bug reports or the kwin mailing list. On another hand most (if not all!) kwin styles support configurability of titlebar buttons thus you can add a close button yourself. On yet another hand the icon button exposes the operations menu upon click thus letting you choose the "Close" command from this menu. On yet other hand you can always use the "Alt-F4" to close a window. Thus it is barely possible that a window style become unusable because of lack of double-click behavior. As of the precise bug you report (second click passing through) I saw a few reports in the bug report system but I was never able to reproduce it myself thus it is difficult for me to investigate the problem. Thanks -- Cristian Tibirna .. tibirna@sympatico.ca PhD student .. ctibirna@giref.ulaval.ca .. www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna KDE developer .. tibirna@kde.org .. www.kde.org