Proposal: use Icon Tasks as our default taskmanager.

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Sat May 5 16:04:57 UTC 2012


On Saturday 05 May 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> I am against using IconTasks as the default [1] for the following reasons:
> * we are after feature freeze
> * it lives in plasma-addons and not in kde-workspace
> * the UI is way too complex
> * the issues you mentioned are not related to TaskManager but to
> libtaskmanager which is shared by both applets. All those issues are
> probably also visible with icon tasks but just better hidden.
> 
> The first two items are clear showstoppers for 4.9 IMHO and the third one
> is a clear showstopper in general given the way how we considered the task
> applet up to now: few options, not complex and who wants more should be
> able to get a complex version.

yep, couldn't have said it better.

besides, fixing it to make it acceptable would be quite a lot of time, that 
right now is kinda wasted to put into any c++ applet

-- 
Marco Martin


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