Taskbar grouping patented by MS - Mentions kde-look ml as reference

[Karl-Heinz Zimmer]

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Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 13:29 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 13:18 schrieb Karl-Heinz Zimmer:
> > Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 02:10 schrieb Pupeno:
> > > On Friday July 2 2004 07:10, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p
> > > >=1&
> > > > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=113191&threshold=2&commentsort=
> > > >0&ti d=15 5&mode=nested&cid=9589101
> > >
> > > So, what happens now ? taskbar grouping will have to be removed from
> > > KDE ?
>
> Well, if you would want to take the consequences like that you would have
> to remove kicker completely: If you look more closely at the other patent
> references you will realize that there exists a patent as well which
> describes a taskbar with startmenu ...

Correct, and an older one covering "User interface with individually 
configurable panel interfaces for use in a computer system" so we also
could forget about SuperKaramba, and WindowMaker could close its windows
and so on...
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5754174

Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz at kde.org>

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and 
wrong.
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