IconTasks taskmanager changes

[todd rme]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 14:10:50 Craig Drummond wrote:
>> > yes, it's an edge case for certain. would be nice if it works, all the
>> > same.
>>
>> But, is it worth adding work-arounds for such an edge case? Why bloat the
>> code with something that is unlikely to occur? At least I dont see it as a
>
> because ime:
>
> * covering edge cases often opens the door to fixing other similar cases later
> on
>
> * it helps prevent code from becoming overly specified and brittle by only
> doing the "main" things well
>
> * it gives people who try such things (out of innocence usually :) a really
> good feeling that it actually works in all cases (as far as they know)
>
> counter points to this are:
>
> * it can lead the code to becoming spaghetti or a series of workarounds that
> make it unmaintainable
>
> if that condition is met, ime, you can mostly forget about the positives. so
> it does become a matter of judgement. in this case, i don't think it would be
> a big addition, would be applicable to other similar cases and would make sure
> the code itself was reasonably generic.

This may be an ignorant question, but what is wrong with using the
existing application picker dialog as-is? As best as I can tell it
already supports using commandline names, I am not 100% certain but it
seems to create a .desktop file automatically when it cannot find a
matching one.  This would also make things easier if the application
picker gets any improvements down the road.

-Todd