IconTasks taskmanager changes

Craig Drummond craig.drummond at gmx.net
Thu Oct 27 20:11:45 UTC 2011


On 27/10/11 18:32, Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:21:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 14:44:17 todd rme wrote:
>>> 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
>> nothing. the question isn't whether or not to use the application picker
>> dialog (we all seem to agree it makes sense as a last resort), but how much
>> we should try to _avoid_ having to use it.
> Well, I don't agree. The dialog shows an autogenerated list of desktop-files.
> What the user will now do is to compare the application names. The computer
> can do that, too. If it currently doesn't, that needs to be fixed instead of
> passing on the work to the user. The dialog might be a acceptable workarround
> for the time beeing, though.

Totally 100% agree. However, there is not always a 100% match from 
windowClass/windowName/commandline match to a desktop file. In these 
circumstances, the dialog is used. And it should only be used as a last 
resort.

Craig.


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