Bug 64816

Summary:	kate (and konqueror) sub panes don't honour window manager focus policy
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	hughjonesd
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	chgans, christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description hughjonesd 2003-09-23 18:28:10 UTC

Version:           2.1 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Installed from:    Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-0.13mdksecure

This is a usability request: I think it would be nice if kate and konqueror MDI windows - and MDI windows in general - honoured the window manager focus policy. For example, I use "focus-follows-mouse", and it would be nice if the Kate integrated terminal received focus when I moved the mouse over it. At the moment, all MDI windows use "click-to-focus".

Comment 1 Amand Tihon 2004-05-26 01:58:40 UTC

I fully agree with this proposal.

Kate is really enjoyable, I use it everyday, but this is the only thing driving me nuts.

Comment 2 Joao S . O . Bueno 2004-08-24 14:27:39 UTC

Ouch..It is a whole year old already, and "unconfirmed"...

This is really annoying, folks. Let us see this fixed - although it is listed as a "enhancement", anyone working with a focus-follow-mouse policy will tell it is a fix soon!

Comment 3 Jes Hall 2005-01-10 15:25:27 UTC

In kate in particular, I would like to see an option to enable 'focus follows mouse' when one is using a split window mode. I am always typing in the wrong window, as every other application I use honours this =p

Comment 4 Marcus Hardt 2007-02-22 09:25:20 UTC

Wow, this bug is older than I miss focus follows mouse in kate...
PLEEAASE can anybody do s.th. about it.

Btw: Is this a bug in kate or in QT?

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2012-11-01 01:54:06 UTC

*** Bug 286450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2012-11-09 19:55:41 UTC

No other KDE application has such focus behavior (even if enabled for the windows) and if there is no Qt wide way to change to such a behavior (which there isn't) we won't implement this, sorry.
If you want that, please report bug to Qt to have keyboard focus follow mouse.

See:

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt.html#FocusPolicy-enum

No way to set such a focus policy.