Idea: Window management for 4.5

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 30 January 2010, Emdek wrote:
> On 30-01-2010 at 11:25:29 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/30/10, Emdek <emdeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 29-01-2010 at 19:30:48 Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
> >> 
> >>  <devel at the-user.org> wrote:
> >>  > Comments? Suggestions? Ideas?
> >>  
> >>  I'm working on similar thing for my Fancy Tasks applet.
> >>  Currently it supports connecting jobs to application icon, but
> >> 
> >> currently
> >> 
> >>  I'm working on own library for task management (currently paused, I'm
> >>  working on my thesis) that will allow for (optional) connecting
> >>  notifications and maybe also menus from systray (depends what is
> >> 
> >> available
> >> 
> >>  in new systray spec).
> > 
> > This is actually one of the goals of the new systray spec.
> > icons are categorized, so while entries about hardware status really
> > belong to a special area, most of them are just application status, so
> > really belong to the taskbar.
> > the WId of the main window is exposed over DBus, so should be easy to
> > hook them to the proper task entry.
> 
> Nice. :-)
> 
> > personally i don't think i'll have time in the 4.5 timeframe, not
> > sure. but iif somebody is willing to take the burden i would be happy
> > to mentor him
> 
> You mean adding support for it to tasks applet or libtaskmanager directly?
> 
probably will need work on both things, since the context menu is in 
libtaskmanager
also the association bookkeping would be nice done here.
will need a proper visualization too of course,s owork in the aplet would be 
needed as well

Cheers,
Marco Martin