IconTasks taskmanager changes

[Martin Klapetek]

On Oct 27, 2011 11:35 PM, "Anton Kreuzkamp" <akreuzkamp at web.de> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 27 October 2011 23:11:13 Martin Klapetek wrote:

<snip>

> >
> > 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.

Ok, bad example. Think of any non-KUniqueApp in systray then, Quassel for
example, this opens two windows for sure.

--
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer

> >
> > 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..
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