some simple tasks

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi..

in the past we talked about the bug tracker and maintenance, etc. one person 
said they'd perhaps take on a role of "bug selector" and gather a small number 
of issues for us to work on. well, instead of waiting longer for that to 
happen, i decided to grab a few items from the tracker today (and ended up 
fixing a few things myself in the process :)

if this works out and people actually take on these tasks, then that means 
that this is time well spent and i'll ensure it continues happening. 

so, here are the issues, and i think they are things that nearly anyone could 
dive into and fix up, and i'd encourage you to do so:


Issue: Taskbar tooltips appear instantly when you hover on items.
Reference: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278765

Suggested Fixes:

* Easy:  if compositing is not active (!KWindowSystem::compsitingActive()) 
then the time out should not be zero (it should probably not be changed at 
all, in fact). if compositing is active, it should be a smaller number (like 
50ms or something) to prevent absolutely INSTANT shows.

* Moderate: if the tooltip is going to overlap a popup applet's dialog, the 
tooltip should be move away from it (or supressed?)

Where to start: kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks 
grep for ToolTipContent



Issue: Columns in the system tray dialog config dialog's Entries page should 
be equal
Reference: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241277

Suggested Fixes: the columns should be set to be equal size. Qt's list view 
class must have something for this :)

Where to start: kde-workspace/plasma/generic/applets/systemtray
look for the the config UI files and their setup in 
createConfigurationInterface


Issue: Launchers in Tasks widget disappear after use
Reference: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278843

Suggested fixes: either libtaskmanager or the tasks widget are not identifying 
the launcher icon as being available after closing the last window. which 
means something like the icon launcher entry is being lost or misidentified. 
my guess is "misidentified" because they show up on first start, but after the 
app window is shown and then closed, the launcher doesn't come back .. until 
next start. 

Where to start: kde-workspace/libs/taskmanager/
make sure checkLauncherVisibility in groupmanager.cpp is being called and is 
working properly. easy enough with some kDebug statements and running 
`plasmoidviewer tasks` to test. depending on what that turns up, we can go 
from there.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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