[Bug 160156] I'd like an option to always use two rows on the taskbar

Aaron J.Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Mar 31 18:27:14 CEST 2008


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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From aseigo kde org  2008-03-31 18:27 -------
Jonathan: the taskbar users the most of the space it has. larger targets == easier to hit. it's not worth the complexity at either the code level or the UI level to make it always use two rows as an option: the win is tiny. the root of your issue is that you don't like how it looks, and what i'm suggesting is that there is probably a way to make it *look* better even in single row mode. unless you really mean "i like it being hard to hit the window entries." which i don't think you do. so the solution is to work on the appearance of the single row taskbar. and if that still doesn't do it for you, well, find another taskbar applet.

Rafał: it's not just too many, it's the wrong options or just plain bad options (as defined by: work around problems rather than solve them). as for the "but then someone will want the existing behaviour back" quandry, see the reply to Jonathan above.

Dan: the sane way is going left-to-right then top-to-bottom on add and vice-versa on remove. the layout animator sucks in that regard, but the improvement is fairly obvious and doesn't require any configuration options.

 Emil: it's still configuration overload if they are stuffed to the rafters in an application config dialog. and that doesn't address the impact on the code base either. and for the record, getting at taskbar settings could be done by right clicking in kde3 as well.

as for wanting things as cramped as possible so you get unused space ... that's just something we'll have to disagree on. the point of having space there is to use it.


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