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Originally posted by ahmetgns
When I show my desktop by the Show Desktop button in Quick Launch part of Windows taskbar or by the shortcut keys Win Logo + ( D) or ( M), my maximized tabbed chat restores itself to its previous dimensions.
I think you explained it wrong. Since, if you do exactly as explained here, the bug wont happen. In fact, all you would see is your Desktop.
I think what you wanted to explain is(?):
- Open a tabbed chat window and maximize it
- Press WIN+D or WIN+M
=> Now you will either only see your Desktop window, or you will see your Desktop window behind a few other windows (while most windows are minimized), depeding on what shortcut you used. For more detail, see explaination below.
- Now you need to press WIN+D again to restore all normal windows. You can not use WIN+M at this point because WIN+M is not a 'toggle' command, while WIN+D is. Again, see below for detailed explaination of the difference.
=> At this point you will see your tabbed chat window again, but it will be restored to its original size, thus before it was maximized.
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This 'bug' has also already been reported though...
somewhere...
(note the single quotes, since it isn't really a real bug, but more like a limitation/consequence of the way it works)
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[related, but important to understand]
Note that the "Show Desktop" button in Quick Launch (shortcut: Win+D) is
not the same as shortcut WIN+M.
The first (WIN+D) puts the desktop window in front of all other windows; it puts the Desktop window as the top-most window. Compare it with what ALT+TAB does for programs.
The second (WIN+M) minimizes only windows which have the minimize setting enabled, you reconize them by the minimize button in the top right corner. It doesn't touch the desktop window.
Thus they both do very different things. Thus also note that your Desktop is actually a window on its own. A window which can be placed in front of other windows (WIN+D). The WIN+D shortcut also toggles between two states (Desktop window in front/Desktop window in background). The WIN+M shortcut does not toggle window states and only does 1 thing (minimize all windows which can be minimized).
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Second note: a tabbed chat is actually a window controlled by a special hidden Plus! window. This hidden Plus! window can not be minimized nor maximized! What happens when you minimize a tabbed chat window is that the command to minimize the chat window is catched by this special Plus! window and it actually disables the tabbed chat window instead of minimizing it. The very same thing happens when you press on a tab button in a tabbed chat window: it simply disables the current chat window and enables another chat window which was previously disabled, so it does not minimize, restore or shift window z-order positions around.
When you maximize a tabbed chat window, the special hidden Plus! window again catches this and the visible chat window is maximized this time. However, the other chat windows (which are disabled since they aren't the top-most chat) are not maximized, they stay at their original size, disabled.
Also important to know is that the taskbar button you see, when you have tabbed chatting enabled, is not the taskbar button of the current chat window, it is actually the taskbar button of that special hidden window.
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All this causes some behaviours which you normally wouldn't expect, like:
- When you click on the taskbar button of a minimized tabbed chat (thus which is actually the taskbar button of that hidden Plus! window), that tabbed chat window will be shown immediatly. Normal Windows behaviour for minimized windows in this case is to only show the right click context menu without restoring the window immediatly. This issue was already reported on the forums too...
- 'Wrong' contact names can be shown in the taskbar button in certain cases. Or the button caption doesn't follow the current chat caption.
- A maximized tabbed chat will be restored to his original size when you use the WIN+D shortcut to show the Desktop window and again restoring it to the background.
- And a few other things which all come down to how tabbed chatting internally works.
Also see "
Tabbed chats taskbar button and its right click menu BUGS" and a few other threads, for example like:
Tabbed Chat Bug, etc...
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