Review Request: Launcher support for libtaskmanager

[Anton Kreuzkamp]

> On 2010-07-13 20:53:40, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskgroup.cpp, lines 264-269
> > <http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4585/diff/3/?file=30674#file30674line264>
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> >     why are launchers with no window instances removed from the member list?
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> Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
>     isVisible() returns true if there's no window instance, so it get removed if there is one.
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> Aaron Seigo wrote:
>     ah! ok, that makes sense ... very unfortunate that this needs to be done on each request for members(), however, as that gets called fairly often. it would be a lot nicer if the launcher was only added (pre-pended?) to the list if there were no windows (and so it should be shown). this could be achieved by checking isVisible on the launcher item after calls to addWindowInstance and removeWindowInstance; a separate list/set of all launchers would need to be kept in this case (for the ones that are !isVisibe and therefore no longer in the main list), but this should prevent a lot of iteration, temporary list creation, casting and comparisons whenever members() is called.
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>     (another more complex approach might be to make LauncherItem change its type: when there are no associated windows it is a launcher item; when there is one window, it is a window item; where there is >1 window, it is a group item. this, however, is signficantly more complex and not at all worth it as far as i can see.) 
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>     (this also implies that once the app is launched, it doesn't make sense to launch it again (which isn't always the case), but that's probably ignorable.)

If I didn't missunderstood the code (please correct me if I did) it this only gets called if the item wasn't there before (in addTask(); removeTask() only gets called if the item really should be removed ) because of this is checked before. ("if (!item) {",l.269)


- Anton


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On 2010-08-22 10:39:29, Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-08-22 10:39:29)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> Adds support for Windows 7 like launchers in libtaskmanager.
> (I'm on holliday from 12th July until 1st August so I will not be able to reply during this time.)
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/CMakeLists.txt 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractgroupableitem.h 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractgroupableitem.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractgroupingstrategy.h 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractgroupingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/abstractsortingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/groupmanager.h 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/groupmanager.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/launcheritem.h PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/launcheritem.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/strategies/alphasortingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/strategies/kustodiangroupingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/strategies/manualgroupingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/strategies/programgroupingstrategy.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskactions.cpp 1148442 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskgroup.h 1166310 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskgroup.cpp 1166310 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskitem.h 1166310 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/taskmanager/taskitem.cpp 1148442 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4585/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested with a small test-applett and everything works.
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> Thanks,
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> Anton
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