- Mapping a new window that belongs to a running application that is hidden,

will unhide the application.
- removed a wsyserror() message when reading a property list from file
  (the programmer should decide if to give that message or just ignore).

ChangeLog

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Changes since version 0.70.0:
   an application will keep the shaded/unshaded state of windows.)
 - Removed compile time option for definable cursors and made them available by
   default.
+- Mapping a new window that belongs to a running application that is hidden,
+  will unhide the application.
 
 
 Changes since version 0.65.1:

WINGs/ChangeLog

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Changes since wmaker 0.70.0:
 - added an internal strcasecmp() (only on systems where is not present)
 - removed some redundant includes of ../src/config.h when wconfig.h is 
   included too
+- removed a wsyserror() message when reading a property list from file
+  (the programmer should decide if to give that message or just ignore).
 
 
 Changes since wmaker 0.65.0:

WINGs/proplist.c

@@ -1544,14 +1544,15 @@ WMReadPropListFromFile(char *file)
 
     f = fopen(file, "r");
     if (!f) {
-        wsyserror(_("could not open domain file %s for reading"), file);
+        /* let the user print the error message if he really needs to */
+        /*wsyserror(_("could not open domain file '%s' for reading"), file);*/
         return NULL;
     }
 
     if (stat(file, &stbuf)==0) {
         length = (size_t) stbuf.st_size;
     } else {
-        wsyserror(_("could not get size for domain file %s"), file);
+        wsyserror(_("could not get size for file '%s'"), file);
         fclose(f);
         return NULL;
     }
@@ -1563,7 +1564,7 @@ WMReadPropListFromFile(char *file)
     pldata->lineNumber = 1;
 
     if (fread(pldata->ptr, length, 1, f) != 1) {
-        wsyserror(_("error reading from file %s"), file);
+        wsyserror(_("error reading from file '%s'"), file);
         plist = NULL;
         goto cleanup;
     }

src/window.c

@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ wManageWindow(WScreen *scr, Window window)
     int workspace = -1;
     char *title;
     Bool withdraw = False;
+    Bool raise = False;
 
     /* mutex. */
     /* XGrabServer(dpy); */
@@ -1110,7 +1111,9 @@ wManageWindow(WScreen *scr, Window window)
             }
 
             if (app->flags.hidden) {
-                wwin->flags.hidden = 1;
+                /*wwin->flags.hidden = 1;*/
+                wUnhideApplication(app, False, False);
+                raise = True;
             }
         }
     }
@@ -1215,6 +1218,12 @@ wManageWindow(WScreen *scr, Window window)
 	wwin->prev = NULL;
     }
 
+    /* raise is set to true if we un-hid the app when this window was born.
+     * we raise, else old windows of this app will be above this new one. */
+    if (raise) {
+        wRaiseFrame(wwin->frame->core);
+    }
+
     /* Update name must come after WApplication stuff is done */
     wWindowUpdateName(wwin, title);
     if (title)