Proposal: use Icon Tasks as our default taskmanager.

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday, May 5, 2012 14:25:09 Mark wrote:
> 1. Ghosting still seems to be an issue. Even though i do have Qt 4.8.1. I
> haven't re-opened https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275469 yet since i
> think the ghosting doesn't occur in icon tasks.

feel free to work on it. the last causes of it were found to be related to 
issues with x events in Qt.

> 2. Sometimes taskbars seem to be overlapping. It's very efficient use of
> space and perhaps usable for tablets but i rather dislike it. hehehe,
> anyway, there is a bug report for that as well:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275469

this is very likely just the same issue as #1

> 3. Task Manager sometimes seems to forget which applications are pinned.
> They are back again when the user logs out and back in. (restarting
> plasma-desktop is probably also an option)

a friend here in zürich did some sleuthing work and figured out when this 
happens -> it turns out it is triggered when kbuildsycoca runs. with that 
information in hand, i was able to fix it quickly, and that fix is in 4.8.3. 

i also fixed the issue that preferred applications (e.g. "dolphin" == "file 
manager") were not being properly associated with each other.

> 4. Minimize effect could go all ways with taskmanager. Sometime even to the
> middle of the screen. This issue happens so darn often! At first i thought

please feel free to offer a fix. i believe on the bug report for this item i 
explain quite clearly what the issues are.


anyways ... we have an amazing process called "bug fixing". instead of 
replacing one body of code with another under the mistaken impression that if 
we just pick a different set of code all bugs will go away, we fix bugs that 
exist.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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