taskmanager project

[Casper Clemence]

Hi all. I am starting out hacking on KDE and I wanted to check that I'm not 
stepping on any toes.

I've never used Qt or kdelibs before and I have a full time "day job" so I 
might take a while. Anyway I hope I can be useful and not just a pain. I will 
do some bugfixing I promise, but I think I'll learn better by trying to 
implement some design.

What I'm working on is the "workspace/plasma/applets/tasks" task-manager. In 
particular the grouping behaviour.

AIM:
(1) on mouseover (of a group item) a taskbar-like widget pops out showing the 
members of the group it's behaviour and appearence is the same as the main 
taskbar.
(2) left-click peforms bring to front/minimise/restore action on whole group
(3) right-click context menu remain the same

...I hope it's clear what I mean :)

JUSTIFICATION:
(1) Using a taskbar-like widget rather than a visually different menu means 
the user does not have to switch her mental model and should therefore be more 
intuitive: doesn't "make the user think".
(2) Makes the mouse interaction more consistent: left-click on a window item 
brings that window to the front, left click on a group item brings that group 
to the front.
(3) means that bringing forward a window that is part of a group or a whole 
group both require one click not two, as they do currently.

If you think this is stupid or it likely conflicts with something that is 
already being done, let me know.

Cheers,

Casper