Another key mapping/app start question

[tedlane]

Following on from http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,70882.0.html re mapping the meta key..

In KDE3 I was able to control two things somehow:
1) making an app start on a particular desktop (e.g. click on firefox desktop icon and it would quietly start on desktop 6, sit there, shut up and wait for me to tell it to do something) and
2) making it behave while it was starting and not continually popping up to tell me the state of its underware (I think this was called focus stealing?)  firefox and gimp were two particularly "juvenille" delinquents in this manner.

I can't seem to find or remember how this was achieved and whether it can be don in KDE4.  Any pointers?

tia
ted

[computer]

Yes, I have the same. The window-manager switches on its own after I 'throughput' a link for
instance a browser in case of feedreading or tabbed mail in the browser. Only Firefox does not
give the problem.

Xfce has quite some settings for the WM (Window manager tweaks), I love it, but I don't see this
kind of setting-tool in KDE 2013.
(I'm experimenting with KDE and it is a beauty really, but not 100% finished in my humble opinion.)

Anybody an idea about this desktop switcher? 

(By the way, it would be lovely when the WM in KDE would give more detail like old WM's.
That gives the user a little more help.)