Icons only mode for tasks plasmoid

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 19:50:56 CET 2009


On Friday 16 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > Please have a look at the attached patch and give comments on it ;-)
>
> before this goes in (and the patch looks ok at first read) i think we may
> want to step back and ask ourselves:
>
> "Do we really want a task bar that behaves exactly like the current task
> bar, except that it has no text?"
>
> - or -
>
> "Do we want a task bar that actually has the semantics of a dock?"
>
> if the latter, we ought to create a sperate widget. this new widget and the
> tasks widget can certainly share a lot of code and classes, but i don't
> think that shoving more and more options in and complicating the code more
> and more makes the most sense if what we really want is a dock when it's
> all said and done.
just a little administrative curiosity:
so if we want to do so, where should be put? in workspace like plasmaclock or 
simply make more applet in the same taskbar applet folder like kickoff?

> btw, in the code, instead of doing the checkedState comparison, you can
> just do isChecked(). so much shorter =) checkedState only really matters
> for tristate controls.




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