Bug 419384

Summary: Make the tracking of different feature of applications (geometry, title...) optional
Product: [Unmaintained] lattedock Reporter: Pierpaolo Valerio <pierpaolo.valerio>
Component: applicationAssignee: Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: git (master)   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://commits.kde.org/latte-dock/ce245ab25372ccd647df1258609c67e928fb7f30 Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Pierpaolo Valerio 2020-03-29 16:52:26 UTC 
This is a bug report in response of the discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/fpc7rt/latte_bug_fix_release_0910/flrb31d/

Right now the idea is that the window tracking feature of latte ignores plasma popups, but not windows like krunner or yakuake. This is the intended behaviour for deciding whether the panel should be transparent or not, if the transparency option is set, as those are windows positioned directly next to a top panel.

The behaviour, however, doesn't match the appmenu applet, which is set to ignore all plasma popups. So if the window-title, window-buttons and window-appmenu applet are present, opening krunner changes the behaviour of the buttons and the title applets, but the appmenu keeps referring to the previous app.

The proposed suggestion is to implement new properties such as skipTaskBar, skipSwitcher, skipPager for the LastActiveWindow class, so that the applets can ignore some apps if needed.
Comment 1 Michail Vourlakos 2020-04-07 10:05:53 UTC 
this was fixed much easier. The LastActiveWindow information are NOT used from Latte window touching algorithms. They are used only for applets to use them. So I blacklisted the relevant windows
Comment 2 Michail Vourlakos 2020-04-07 10:06:29 UTC 
Git commit ce245ab25372ccd647df1258609c67e928fb7f30 by Michail Vourlakos.
Committed on 07/04/2020 at 10:00.
Pushed by mvourlakos into branch 'master'.

ignore some windows in LastActiveWindow

--LastActiveWindow is providing information to
applets thus special windows that contain
the following flags:
skipTaskBar AND (skipPager OR skipSwitcher)
these windows can be totally ignored.
In such window case the LastActiveWindow used
are provided.

M  +9    -0    app/wm/tracker/lastactivewindow.cpp
M  +4    -0    app/wm/waylandinterface.cpp
M  +4    -0    app/wm/xwindowinterface.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/latte-dock/ce245ab25372ccd647df1258609c67e928fb7f30