The Tasks DataEngine

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Alain Boyer wrote:
> > This led me to take a look at the tasks data engine and applet. I was
> > surprised to see that they don't talk to each other.
>
> there's another person working on the tasks applet atm, so probaby good you
> started with the engine =)

speaking of that, yesterday was talking with nuno that would be nice to make 
some visual changes in the taskbar for 4.2 both for mantain freshness and 
because there was some usability problem in the distinction between active and 
requesting attention tasks..
and since it doesn't make much sense working on the one that is in trunk now, 
there are some ideas on when the branch will be merged? there is not sooo much 
time left :)

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> > My first task (no
> > pun intended) was to extend the data engine.
> >
> > My goal is to completely encapsulate the taskmanager library within
> > the tasks data engine. My theory is that this would simplify the
> > existing tasks applet and allow the creation of other task-like
> > applets without re-writing code.
>
> yes...
>
> > I have some code that adds a custom task DataContainer and Service.
> > This allows you to interact (maximize, minimize...) with windows using
> > a service. It works, but it seems like a lot of overhead to simply
> > minimize a window...
>
> have you actually measured it? if so, what's the cost, both in terms of
> instantiation time and memory usage?
>
> note that even if we don't use this (due to overhead) in the main task
> applet, it would still be highly useful to other applets (i already ran
> into this with the ktorrent applet)