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<p>I don't know what the reasoning between splitting the task managers is.<br />
But from what I understand, Icons-Only means no text.<br />
And sorting is also removed.</p></div>
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<p>Icons-Only implements the "Dock" paradigm and organizes things on the basis of apps, not windows. So the name doesn't make it clear, but the Icons-Only Task Manager is much more than just "the regular task manager without labels".</p>
<p>I'm not sure of the history behind why this split is presented in the form of two different applets rather than a single one with configurable options. In the backend, they're both using the same code so this is easily possible. Personally I would like for there to be a single task manager that exposes three different modes in the config window:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">Legacy Windows Vista and before mode (current default)</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">^^, but without labels (Windows 10 style with grouping mode turned off)</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">macOS style Dock mode (current Icons-Only Task Manager)</li>
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<p>This would call for some serious discussion before implementing it though.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R119 Plasma Desktop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D25844">https://phabricator.kde.org/D25844</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>gvgeo, Plasma, VDG<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>ngraham, broulik, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>