Sure.<br>
<br>
Although with current kicker habits, it could be confusing and would need more thought. <br>
<br>
Example: You could have Kate in an application bundle, but you've
opened 2 other instances of Kate. So Kicker stacks 2 versions of
Kate together, and then your bundle is shown on Kicker. Does the
bundle-Kate instance go in the bundle and *also* the 2 stacked
instances or not? <br>
<br>
But finding the way to have an app bundle show on kicker would be
nice. Clicking on it could show the apps in the bundle, and maybe
hovering on it could show the number of apps, memory used, datetime
clicked, etc.<br>
<br>
The general idea of application bundles have many peripheral concepts to them as well.<br>
* Pre- and post- processing. Do you want to do something to be
done before or after launch (I guess conceptually like an isapi/nsapi
filter)? Start up apache or postgres?<br>
* Application launch parameters: When you launch your "Developer" role
bundle, do you want to check out from subversion or have each
application launch with command-line arguments?<br>
* Desktop grouping: Maybe clicking on the bundle in Kicker
"upsizes" or maximizes all of them at once. Maybe like a Visio
block of objects, they're dragged around the screen together?
Hold the ctrl/shift/alt key down and you get the outline of the group
and can move them about (to front/to back would be userful), or drag
them together to another desktop on Kicker. Maybe Kompose treats
them as one unit if you want, or alt-tab treats them as one.<br>
<br>
Who knows...treating a logical bundle as an atomic unit opens a lot of possibilities both inside/outside of Plasma.<br>
<br>
Yeah, you can write a single shell script to start a web server, db
server, and launch application with input args. But until korn
shell supports transparency and shimmer effects, I'll continue to drone
on about other options.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Volkman</b> <<a href="mailto:jvolkman@gmail.com">jvolkman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>I've been lurking around this list for a while but haven't actually posted yet.<br><br>I really like the idea of user-defined application bundles. I often<br>find myself launching the same group of applications for a specific
<br>task. Maybe also give an option to somehow keep the applications<br>grouped together on the taskbar?<br><br>Jeremy<br>('dwango' on freenode)<br><br>On 7/21/05, Wade Olson <<a href="mailto:wadejolson@gmail.com">wadejolson@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> 1) Metadata: He mentions about hovering over an application and receiving<br>> information about the application before launch (through Konqi/Clippy or<br>> otherwise). I like this idea quite a bit. Last launch, 'About' information
<br>> (version, etc), and the same brief description that Kicker gives would be<br>> quite useful. Especially to new Linux users that are staring down 45 email<br>> client options (shame on you distros). For those minimalists, maybe an info
<br>> toggle might appease?<br>><br>> 2) Application Launching in general: I'd to hear people's thoughts on<br>> application bundles. People in different roles may consistently launch the<br>> same group of applications. One example would be the group that you have
<br>> start automatically on boot-up. A developer may want KDevelop, a DB client,<br>> Konqeror and a code profiler to launch together. So maybe letting a user<br>> define a logical bundle of similar apps, and displaying those bundles for
<br>> launch (with corresponding bundle CRUD window) could be slick on the ALI.<br>><br>> Wade<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Panel-devel mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Panel-devel@kde.org">
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