KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Ryan P. Bitanga wrote:
> thumbnails ourselves although I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we
> could lessen the coupling between KWin and the tooltip class in
> libplasma. 

i'm ok with it as long as its down in a way that other window managers can 
provide similar functionality. which is another way of saying "it's ok if 
kwin is first." one of the benefits of working with a window manager project, 
isn't it? =)

> It would be great if we find a way to get the functionality 
> into taskmanager instead and maybe work for something that'll enable
> other wm's to integrate a little better as well.

of course this transcends Tasks themselves somewhat. there are likely to be 
all sorts of uses for "draw a window thumbnail of this Task::Ptr in these 
coords, please".

it would be excellent if we could just make requests to the window manager 
directly for these pixmaps (prescaled, etc). with the flexibility of a window 
manager, we should be able to put such things anywhere and the window manager 
can composite them directly on top.

so if anything goes into libtaskmanager, perhaps it's a generic way to 
say "put a thumbnail of window winId in rect QRect"

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Aaron J. Seigo
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