Review Request: Add "Show Icon only" option to the tasks applet

[Beat Wolf]

> On 2010-08-23 09:00:48, Marco Martin wrote:
> > this very patch appeared here for several times already.
> > and as usual, the question is: what real value gives over auto hiding the text when there is not enough space?
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> Markus Slopianka wrote:
>     If this patch works with the other one that implements launcher support, a Mac OS X-like Dock (AFAIK it's similar in Win7) can be implemented without the need to get 3rd party widgets.
>     With a Dock-like setup I wouldn't want text other than tooltips.

i would actually agree on adding it from the feedback i get when i show kde to people used to windows. it's one of the first things they ask for.


- Beat


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On 2010-08-22 13:52:33, Björn Ruberg wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-08-22 13:52:33)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> This patch adds the option to put the taskbar in an icon-only mode - similar as in Windows 7 . This is an much requested feature in bugzilla.
> It is fairly simple and just using features already existing in the code, adding an m_showIconOnly member to the layout and the abstractitem plus the adaption of the config ui.
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> This addresses bug 159480.
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159480
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/tasksConfig.ui 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/tasks.cpp 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/taskitemlayout.h 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/taskitemlayout.cpp 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/abstracttaskitem.h 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/abstracttaskitem.cpp 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/taskgroupitem.h 1166313 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/taskgroupitem.cpp 1166313 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/5078/diff
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> Testing
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> Moved panel around and made sure it works. Looks actually pretty good this icon-only mode!
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> Thanks,
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> Björn
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