tasks painting semplification

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 27 October 2008, christian mollekopf wrote:
> > From: notmart at gmail.com> To: plasma-devel at kde.org> Subject: tasks
> > painting semplification> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:32:03 +0100> > Hi
> > guys,> with Nuno we are starting to design the new plasma theme for 4.2,
> > of course > this time won't be a total redesign like for 4.1, but just
> > some tweaks here > and there.> a thing that however will look quite
> > different is the taskbar theme, since > there are some usability problems
> > with the current one (hard to tell apart the > focused task with the
> > requesting attention ones)> even it will be mostly just a changing the
> > svg tipe of work it's a good > occasion to take a look at the painting
> > code.
>
> Very good idea, the painting is really quite hard to understand ;-)
ok, so later today i will slash away that stuff with great pleasure :)
> It would also be nice if could make some kind of theming for expanded
> groups (or maybe collapsed as well). It could be based on the group color
> (available in the lib), but then we would have to make this color either
> editable, or chosen by the theme, or whatever.
if done by theme we can't change the color stored in the svg unfortunately
for expanded groups don't know if it would look a bit busy drawing a kind of a 
background of the whole group (maybe should be used something very subtle), 
will talk to nuno about that
for collapsed group there is the arrow indicator, wouldn't make it that 
different, a thing that i would do perhaps is to add a number of the groups 
members, so a collapsed entry would look something like Dolphin (3)

> However it should make expanded groups distingushable from other items and
> it should work with split groups.
>
> Unfortunatley i don't have a clue how to do such things =(, but i'm always
> ready to learn if you need my help for some coding =),
i still don't really know exactly what should be done but shouldn't be that 
much

however still speaking of the taskbar but on a totally different area:
there are some issues i don't really know how and where to fix them since i 
don't know very well the libtaskmanager code: the issue of show only minimized 
tasks we talked briefly on irc yesterday (sorry, didn't have much time :) 
it seems that if the task applet starts with windows already loaded the show 
only minimized behaves correctly but not for windows that starts after the 
taskbar is loaded, so perhaps is something that has to do with starting tasks? 
they shouldn't be listed at all when this option is on i guess

oh and another thing, perhaps the only major thing still missing is the 
grouping only when the taskbar is full, so kinda of an enabling/disabling it 
on the fly, would be feasible with the current architecture? personally i like 
it always on or always off, but received some complaints about that ...

Cheers,
Marco Martin

>
> Regards
>
> > I wanted to make it look nicer, so would be easy to add some fancy effect
> > that > are neeever enough (well, sort of:p) > in svn there is some new
> > bling already...> > aaanyways, the painting function it's really a mess
> > because when i added the > support for svg theming i decided to add a
> > fallback for every element, so when > it does not exist in the svg just
> > paints a rounded rectangle, so the code is > 80% manual qpainter cruft.>
> > now, would be interesting as a general rule how to behave in this cases,
> > i > think that just removing the fallbackswould make way more cleaner
> > code.> i kinda remember chatting with aaron on a similar situation (don't
> > remember > what was the theme/plasmoid in particular) was decided to just
> > consider it a > problem of who makes the theme to ensure all the elements
> > are in> what do you guys think?> > Cheers,> Marco Martin>
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