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Build Identifier: helios-SR1 The splash screen is a regular window from the X11 point of view. The type of the window should be _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH instead of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_NORMAL to be able to distinct it from the main eclipse window which has the same type and class. This would fix an issue when the window manager wants to identify the eclipse main window to assign a keyboard shortcut to it for example. See the related KWin issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264921 and in particular comment #9: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264921#9 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Assign a shortcut to the eclipse main window using KWin 2. Restart eclipse 3. The shortcut will be assigned to the splash screen instead of the main window because the splash screen has the same X11 type and class than the main window.
This seems to be the equivalent of GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_SPLASHSCREEN See bug 79944 where this was tried and reverted due to undesirable always-on-top behaviour in some window managers. (always on top is a problem for the workspace choose dialog and other error messages).
Actually I don't understand the decision to keep the normal window type for the splash screen, isn't a splash screen meant to be on top of other windows? Also it is up to the to user to decide how to treat a specific window type. For reference: http://subforge.org/issues/270
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
This bug was marked as stalebug a while ago. Marking as worksforme. If this report is still relevant for the current release, please reopen and remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.
