0.7.x does not work with apps under KDE 4.x
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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AllTray |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
KDE Base |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Bug Description
Found in: AllTray trunk (0.7.2dev+ from lp:alltray r39)
It would appear that KDE applications don't do some of the things that apps from other environments do, and AllTray doesn't work with them as a result. This doesn't appear to be a bug with AllTray itself; AllTray works with xterm and non-GNOME applications, as well as GNOME applications. AllTray does not catch or dock KDE applications when they are running under GNOME, either. It is possible that this is related to bug 357468, however, this is currently unknown.
For applications that AllTray *does* work with under KDE 4 (e.g., xterm, firefox, evince), the windows are not hidden from the task-switcher (engaged by pressing ALT+TAB) despite the window being removed from the view of the taskbar.
Investigation needs to occur to figure out what causes this and if there is a decent way to work around this for KDE, with potentially a bug report being put into KDE as a result. This will require someone with some expertise with KDE applications and the KDE desktop environment itself.
Changed in alltray: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in kdebase: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in kdebase: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in kdebase: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
summary: |
- 0.7.x does not work with KDE 3.x & 4.x apps + 0.7.x does not work with apps under KDE 4.x |
Changed in kdebase: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Have opened a bug with KDE to request a longer-term fix (at least for the latter part of this bug) than a workaround. Still need to find a way to work around this issue in the short-term, though. Hopefully the former half of the bug (that KDE apps behave strangely by detaching from the terminal and being hard to “capture”) can be resolved the fix for bug 356516.