Verve-plugin and hidden panels

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Jannis Pohlmann schreef:
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:41:40 +0200, Nikolas Arend wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> another verve-plugin thing... I tried to run it in an auto-hidden
>>> panel. When calling verve-focus, the plugin receives focus and all,
>>> but the panel doesn't unhide. I don't know if that's intentional, but
>>> IMHO it'd be good to unhide the respective panel, letting the user
>>> see what he types and launches ;-) If that's possible, of course...
>> AFAIK, there's no function for this, which the plugin could use to
>> unhide the panel, is there, Jasper? 
> 
> No.
> 
>> If not, this might be something
>> useful to add. 
> 
> Sounds like it could be useful. I might have a look at it when time 
> allows and the weather doesn't turn me into a sweating zombie...
> 
>> Or perhaps (dunno if this is possible) just connect to
>> all action widgets and their "focus-in-event" in order to unhide it
>> automatically. 
> 
> This still would need communication between (external) plugins and the 
> panel, so it might just as well be an explicit action.
> 

Jannis, how about the patch below. You can also re-hide, but I didn't 
know where to put that.

	Jasper

Index: panel-plugin/verve-plugin.c
===================================================================
--- panel-plugin/verve-plugin.c (revision 1847)
+++ panel-plugin/verve-plugin.c (working copy)
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@

    if (toplevel && toplevel->window)
      {
+      /* Unhide panel */
+      xfce_panel_plugin_set_panel_hidden (verve->plugin, FALSE);
        /* Focus the command entry */
        xfce_panel_plugin_focus_widget (verve->plugin, verve->input);