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

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 23 August 2010 11:53:03 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 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.
Please note that we cannot do proper docks in KDE yet (for various reasons 
related to the way we have X and windows and apps as totally different 
concepts). Windows can't do it as well. They ended up with something horrible 
broken in Win7. So for me it is clear: KDE *must* not ship a dock like 
implementation in the default set. For every body coming from Mac and knowing 
the "real" dock  it will just be: "that sucks" and for everybody coming from 
Windows it's "they copied". Both is bad and gives us no additional value 
except making a vocal minority quiet.

I think we went quite good up to now with "use stasks/fancytasks when you want 
dock". For me it's natural that we don't include broken concepts by default 
and that we ask the user to install the broken concept explicitly when they 
want to.
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