IconTasks taskmanager changes

[Anton Kreuzkamp]

On Friday 28 October 2011 00:00:02 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> 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>
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> > > Little bit sidetrack - I've been using Icon Tasks for quite some time
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> now
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> > > and it's really cool. As for the launchers - would it be possible to
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> detect
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> > > if the app is running minimized in tray and open it instead of starting
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> new
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> > > instance?
> > > 
> > > Example - run Amarok, create launcher, minimize Amarok to tray, click
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> the
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> > > launcher and bam, you have second Amarok.
> > 
> > This is quite strange. Amarok is afaik a KUniqueApplication, that means
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> that
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> > 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.
Ok, that's something different, in fact. I'm not sure about it. Probably it 
would better be implemented in KRun directly. But how to do something like 
this exactly, is something I probably don't have enough experience to 
decide...
> 
> --
> 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
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> in
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> > > systray, after all, they are still just running tasks, so you would
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> control
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> > > all tasks from the tasks section of the panel (and Icon Tasks is pretty
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> well
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> > > suited just for this).
> > > 
> > > Just a late night 2-cent-worth idea..