KUbuntu 7.10 release [was: Re: KDE: shortcut for "give me application X"]

[Farid Ansari]

Hi Phil,
Thank you for the information. Just hope the 7.10 contains the KDE desktop.
I appreciate the polite manner in which you advise about opening a new
thread. Some people are not that courteous.
Regards,
Farid


On 4/19/07, Phil Bieber <philbieber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Farid.
> Please open up a new thread for such questions...
> Ubuntu 7.10 is being released today, but I'm not sure about KUbuntu...
> It should be released today, too... Perhaps they're still syncing the
> mirrors...
> Cheers
> Philipp Bieber
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> On 4/19/07, Farid Ansari <ansari.farid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Today is 19th April 2007.
> > Is the Kubuntu 7.04 being released ?
> > Please advise.
> > Thanks & Regards,
> >
> > Farid
> >
> >
> > On 4/19/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> > > G'day.
> > >
> > > I am trying to figure out if it is possible to achieve a bit of UI
> that
> > > I would like in my KDE session:  I want a "give me application X" key
> > > sequence.
> > >
> > > My use case is essentially this:
> > >
> > > I want to hit control-enter to give me a calculator.  I want this to
> > > work from anywhere, no matter what, and to act like this:
> > >
> > >   If I hit the keys and the calculator application isn't running,
> start
> > >   it up.
> > >
> > >   If I hit the keys and it /is/ running then bring it to the current
> > >   desktop, on top, and give it focus.
> > >
> > > What I absolutely do not want is:
> > >
> > >   If I hit the keys and it isn't running nothing happens.
> > >
> > >   If I hit the keys and it is running a second copy starts up.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sadly, though, I can't work out how to achieve this with KDE:
> > >
> > > If I set a global shortcut on the application I get the second bad
> > > behaviour: it starts a new copy of the application even if one is
> > > already running.
> > >
> > > If I set a shortcut key to jump to the application I can't have it
> > > automatically started.
> > >
> > >
> > > Annoyingly, a few applications do the right thing.  I presume this is
> > > because they have their own special internal support for detecting a
> > > running instance and activating that rather than starting a second
> copy.
> > > (...and, no, the calculator isn't one of them.  Darn it.)
> > >
> > >
> > > So, is there any way to achieve this nice, modal behaviour?
> > >
> > > Extra bonus points go to anyone who can supply a third behaviour here:
> > >
> > >   If I hit the keys, it is running and it has focus then hide or
> > >   minimize the application.
> > >
> > > That way I can have a "pop-up" calculator, terminal session and the
> > > couple of other "global" applications that I sometimes want to use
> from
> > > whatever else I am in the middle of.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >         Daniel
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