libtaskmanager

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 21 September 2008, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would say we should really take the new widget since i don't think we can
> just shortly add some grouping functions to the old widget. The new widget
> actually worked quite well, but now i introduced some new problemes while
> turning the LayoutWidget from a QGraphicsItem into a
> QGraphicsLinearLayout(so we don't have a widget that is covering the
> groupwidget, which is useless). As soon as i have done this i need some
> help from people with skills on making the expanded group looking good.
hope to manage to try it tomorrow, so maybe i would be able to ask some more 
meaningful questions :)...

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> btw: aaron, thanks a lot for merging the lib and diggin in the dirt =)
>
> Regards
>
> On Friday 19 September 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 September 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > hi all ...
> > >
> > > i merged in the grouping task manager library today from the grouping
> > > branch. i then went through and did a bunch of clean ups. there is
> > > likely much let to be done, but we should now have grouping and what
> > > not available in the library just waiting to be taken advantage of by
> > > the visualizations.
> >
> > just a curiosity: any ideas when the applet part could be merged?
>
> no idea; to be honest i haven't looked at that code recently.
>
> we have two options for 4.2:
>
> * take what we have in kdebase and add some basic features to it; grouping
> by application should be trivial now
>
> * give the code in the new widget a good looking over, clean up and move
> that over
>
> without having looked at the new widget in detail, i can't say which is a
> better plan at this point.
>
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