Congratulations and some ideas

[Dong Tiger]

Hi all,

I see KDE4.2 beta1 is warmly welcomed by community. I have used KDE4.2 all
the time for a few months. I have to say it's getting greater and greater.
Congratulations to all people here:)

I have a few ideas that I would like to have (Maybe in KDE4.3).

First is that applications can be minimized to applets. When applications
can be minimized to system tray, we feel it's convenient because we can do
something useful through the tray icon. Now we have plasma, if applications
can be minimized to an applet,  we will be able to do much more things on
it. Isn't it great? Take amarok as an example, when it is minimized, an
applet is shown on desktop, showing information of current track, and
buttons of "play", "stop", "next".

Second is about the task manager(the task bar). When mouse hovers on a task
in task bar, a window will pop up and show the thumbnail of the task's
window. That's great. But we can put it further. How about letting
applications to decide what to be shown on the popup window? Still take
amarok as an example, we can show the applet describe above in the popup
window and user can interact with it.

Third is about kwin. "Present windows" is the most used function for me. I
want to be able to choose multiple windows in the "present windows" mode and
then all the selected windows can be nicely arranged on the desktop. It will
be very useful when you have to keep multiple windows side by side.

That's it.

Btw: tomorrow I'll fix a few bugs in Google gadgets on Plasma. Meanwhile,
please try it out. We do have a few lovely gadgets for you:)

--
Tiger
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