IconTasks taskmanager changes

[Anton Kreuzkamp]

On Thursday 27 October 2011 23:11:13 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2011 10:12 PM, "Craig Drummond" <craig.drummond at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Little bit sidetrack - I've been using Icon Tasks for quite some time now
> and it's really cool. As for the launchers - would it be possible to detect
> if the app is running minimized in tray and open it instead of starting new
> instance?
> 
> Example - run Amarok, create launcher, minimize Amarok to tray, click the
> launcher and bam, you have second Amarok.
This is quite strange. Amarok is afaik a KUniqueApplication, that means that 
it cannot be run two times. The check for an already running Amarok should 
happen just in Amarok itself...
And here with the unpatched libtaskmanager and the standard task-widget 
exactly what you propose happens.
> 
> Would it be possible to detect such apps and just restore their window?
> Maybe we could handle apps in the future in this way instead of hiding in
> systray, after all, they are still just running tasks, so you would control
> all tasks from the tasks section of the panel (and Icon Tasks is pretty well
> suited just for this).
> 
> Just a late night 2-cent-worth idea..