more task-refactor issues

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 06 October 2008, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > so ... when a user right clicks on a single entry, they get a single
> > context menu showing "close, minimize, etc..". when they right click on a
> > group, they should probably just get a menu with one entry per window in
> > the group, and each entry should be a submenu showing "close, minimize,
> > etc.."
>
> let me make sure i got this rigth =)

hm. ok, maybe a screenshot is worth a thousand words ;)

	http://plasma.kde.org/media/rightclick_taskbar_kde3.png

> > > > one possibility is to just give N columns to the expanded group, to a
> > > > maximum of maxColumnsPerRow.
> > >
> > > how would this solve the problem, that a group loacted at the end of
> > > the first row which gets expanded would have to split? (since the order
> > > is fixed) We could of course move the group to the next row but this
> > > would lead to holes in the layout....
> >
> > we'll need a way to split groups across rows. whether than means the
> > actual groups themselves or temporarily passing items up to the parent
> > group for layouting .... as marco said, it'll be annoying in the code but
> > it's what i'd expect as a user.
>
> Hmm... in this case i will implement it the way that we have two groupitems
> if it has to be split, so we can still get a consistent layout of a group.

that'd be great.

and i think once we have that in place, we should move the new taskbar into 
kdebase asap.

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