Bug 51904 - wish: close View Attachment windows in reverted order of opening
Summary: wish: close View Attachment windows in reverted order of opening
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2002-12-14 19:03 UTC by tilleyrw
Modified: 2009-12-20 14:35 UTC (History)
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Description tilleyrw 2002-12-14 19:03:01 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I am using KDE 3.1rc5 on Debian unstable, i386 platform.

When opening multiple images from an e-mail message (right-click->View), all images open correctly.

The problem lies with the closing of the images via the ctrl-F4 sequence.  The first press of ctrl-F4 closes the window last opened (the most recently selected).  If multiple image windows have been opened, after closing the most-recently opened window, the next-to-last most recently opened window is not selected.  Therefore no more windows can be closed by ctrl-F4.

In a list format, the above paragraph means that windows open and the most recently opened window remains selected in the following order:  A->B->C, etc.  When closing the currently selected window C via ctrl-F4 no other windows are selected and thus cannot be closed by a key sequence.  Instead a user must maneuver the cursor via mouse control and manually click the close box on each window which has been opened.  This is inefficient and time-consuming versus simply pressing ctrl-F4 multiple times.

A sequence of windows A->B->C should be capable of closure via a series of ctrl-F4s, and as each selected window is closed the one most recently opened is selected.

I hope the above is expressed in a sufficiently cogent form.

Robert
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2002-12-14 21:06:09 UTC
That's a wish but no bug. Currently we let the window manager decide which window should be 
selected after closing a window. 
I'm not sure how this should work. Which window should be selected if the user does this: 
open window A, open window B, open window C, select window B, close window B? 
Should window A be selected (because it was opened before window B) or should window C be 
selected (because it was selected before window B)? 
The window manager would select window B. 
 
Comment 2 tilleyrw 2002-12-14 23:43:35 UTC
Subject: Re:  wish: close View Attachment windows in reverted order of opening

That's a good idea, but can you tell me if there is a way to configure such 
behavior in KDE?

Robert

On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:06 pm, you wrote:
> ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
> You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51904
> kloecker@kde.org changed:
>
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>- Severity|normal                      |wishlist
>             Summary|kmail images don't close in |wish: close View
> Attachment
>
>                    |sequence opened             |windows in reverted order
>                    | of
>                    |
>                    |                            |opening
>
> ------- Additional Comments From kloecker@kde.org  2002-12-14 21:06 -------
> That's a wish but no bug. Currently we let the window manager decide which
> window should be selected after closing a window.
> I'm not sure how this should work. Which window should be selected if the
> user does this: open window A, open window B, open window C, select window
> B, close window B? Should window A be selected (because it was opened
> before window B) or should window C be selected (because it was selected
> before window B)?
> The window manager would select window B.

Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2002-12-15 15:20:36 UTC
Subject: Re:  wish: close View Attachment windows in reverted order of opening

On Saturday 14 December 2002 23:43, tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> That's a good idea, but can you tell me if there is a way to
> configure such behavior in KDE?

I don't think so.