Review Request 123547: Task manager : New instances can now be opened by mid click.

[Eike Hein]

> On April 28, 2015, 11:48 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
> > People  frequently request either "new instance" or "close window" for middle-click, so unfortunately I think this will have to be a config option and I won't accept a patch that only implements the one behavior.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     Even more I would expect that it copies the current copy buffer into a running instance. Middle click is paste after all.
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> Yoann Laissus wrote:
>     @Eike : Ok, I'll add an option in the settings to choose between them.
>     @Martin : I'm not sure to understand, what do you mean by copying the copy buffer ?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     Middle click normaly pastes the content of the "copy buffer" (mark with left click to copy). My expected behavior would be that if e.g. I have a URL in the copy buffer and middle click a Firefox launcher it will open a new tab with the URL loaded.
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     That sounds like a really neat thing. Hidden, but really neat. :)
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> Eike Hein wrote:
>     "Pass URL in clipboard as argument" could be an optional add-on behavior to "Start new instance" which would get that Firefox thing going. Bit concerned with an option jungle though and I fear it's too unpredictable and too likely to lead to bad results to make a default ...
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> Yoann Laissus wrote:
>     I think it's a very nice idea too. But as you said, Eike, it will depend a lot of the app and the copied content. So having that as an option makes sense.
>     
>     To sum up, we will have three choices for the mid button combo box :
>     - Close app
>     - Open new instance
>     - Open new instance with clipboard content as argument
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>     For the default one, I think it's better to have "Open new instance". "Close apps" can be dangerous if users don't know the behaviour.
>     
>     Are you ok with that ?

Let's keep it simple for now and do:

On middle-click: Do nothing (Default) / Close Window / Start New Instance

Let's hold back the clipboard thing for now and perhaps try to do it in a second patch. It needs some fairly careful thought and implementation, e.g. parsing %u and %U in .desktop files (where windows can be mapped to them) to figure out what to with single vs. multiple URLs in the clipboard and possibly other MIME-related considerations.


- Eike


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On April 28, 2015, 8:45 p.m., Yoann Laissus wrote:
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> (Updated April 28, 2015, 8:45 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> Currently, only the shortcut Shift + Left click is available.
> In KDE4, we had both.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml f5fc723 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123547/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested with classic task manager and the icon only one.
> Tested with all mouse button combinaisons and keyboard modifiers.
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> Thanks,
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> Yoann Laissus
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