"Show Only Icons" tasks in Panel Task Manager

[Emdek]

On Monday 13-04-2009 02:53:54 Mario Palomo <mariopal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use a narrow vertical Panel and the text of the items in the Task
> Manager are not very useful to me (only 2 or 3 characters), but I see
> a *small* icon and the 2 or 3 characters I don't need. I think is
> better to see only a *big* icon for every task, so I have touch a
> little the file 'abstracttaskitem.cpp', and if I've configured the
> Grouping Strategy to ManualGrouping, I don't show the text: only a big
> icon (I've used the option to Grouping Strategy because I use this
> option too, and the other KDE4 user in the system don't have this
> option and have a horizontal Panel). I am happy with the result.

There are two applets that draws only icon, one very similar to that from Window 7, named STasks and second, similar to that from MacOS X, named Fancy Tasks, you can find both on kde-look.org.

But I thinks that this option could be also useful in default task manager. ;-)