IconTasks import

[todd rme]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Craig Drummond <craig.drummond at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that all of IconTasks' taskmanager changes have been merged (and
> improved, thanks to Aaron), should I also add IconTasks itself to
> plasma-addons? I foresee the following sticking points:
>
> 1. IconTasks can show KDE job progress over a tasks icon. To accomplish this
> it uses the "applicationjobs" data engine. However, this has an unfortunate
> side effect. The KDE job view server assumes that if there is an application
> listening to jobs, that it will also control them. IconTasks only displays
> progress, it cannot control the jobs. So, if a user activates IconTasks' job
> progress display, and then deactivates the job settings from the plasma job
> viewer, you can no longer control the job. The job view server thinks there
> is a job conrtol app registered, and so will not produce the standalone job
> progress dialogs. To resolve this, there needs to be a way to indicate to
> the job server that a particular app is only listening to events, and does
> not want to control them.
>
> 2. To support thumbnail close buttons, media-buttons on tooltips, more
> windows in preview, etc. IconTasks contains a modified version of the plasma
> tooltips code. This can be resolved by either leaving the copy in IconTasks,
> or merging the changes into libplasma.
>
>
> Craig.
>
> p.s. I've released v0.9.0 of IconTasks with the merged version of
> taskmanager (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Icon+Tasks?content=144808)

At least for 2, I thought some of those were planned for the default
task manager anway.

-Todd