Icons only mode for tasks plasmoid

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:31 +0100, Martin Gräßlin  
<kde at martin-graesslin.com> wrote:

> On Friday 16 January 2009 19:15:55 you 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.
> Personally I would like to have a dock and of course I thought of a dock  
> when
> starting to work on this part ;-) But first of all for me only icons  
> would be
> enough for saving space ;-) I don't know how much work it would be to  
> get a
> dock starting from the tasks widget. Most of the functionality of the  
> tasks
> widget will be needed in a dock, too. Of course the quicklaunch  
> functionality
> has to be added and saving the positions, etc.
>>
>> 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.
> I just wanted to keep the code consistent to the existing checks ;-)
>

Since everyone is now talking about a dock i just wanted to say that i  
don't like the dock at all(at least the OSX one..)
I can't see any advantage apart from the fancy look and the quick access  
to some apps (which could be overcome with a simple
quickstart applet placed next to the taskbar). Other than that i think it  
just takes away space from the taskbar which could be used to identify  
tasks.

But if you have some fancier ideas than apple, please let me know ;-)

To get back to topic, i quite like your patch and from my pov we could  
integrate it (although i couldn't live with only icons)
and will probably never use it =).

What i don't understand is how you're able to distinguish between multiple  
windows of the same app.
Since we want to have soon a popup showing real TaskGroupItems it would  
also not work with grouped windows.
This has to be considered maybe...

Regards

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