Review Request 126591: [Task Manager] Adjust ToolTip when no thumbnail is available

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Jan. 1, 2016, 8:18 nachm., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > In which cases is no thumbnail available?
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     In some cases when the window is minimized.
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>     I think now that we stop redirecting windows when the tooltip hides, probably whenever a window is minimized, as we won't have a temporary pixmap at that point anymore.
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>     (If you enable "Keep thumbnails for all windows (breaks minimization)" you will always have thumbnails, and probably in Wayland, once we support that, too)
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> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     Hm ok.
>     What is the benefit of not showing a tooltip? I mean yes, it's not very useful without a thumbnail, but I'm not sure if it's better to break consistency than it is to show a not useful tooltip...
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     Frankly, the first thing I do on a Plasma install is turn off those tooltips, so you shouldn't listen to my opinion on this. :)
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> Eike Hein wrote:
>     We discussed this previously, and I think we came down on wanting to avoid tooltip window resizing when sliding across the Task Manager.
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>     That said I'm actually with you on disabling the tooltips usually, and I've often considered turning them off by default. Somehow we just don't have them right.

The only times I miss the Task Manager at times is when the text is elided and I cannot see the full file name (or image size, for example)


- Kai Uwe


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On Jan. 1, 2016, 6:38 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 1, 2016, 6:38 nachm.)
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> Review request for Plasma, KDE Usability and Eike Hein.
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> Bugs: 332003
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332003
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> When no window thumbnail is available, the tooltip will be hidden. In case of multiple thumbnails (grouping) the thumbnail fallback will be still shown to ensure a unified look and allow closing individual windows in a group through the tooltip.
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> I could not just visible: thumbnailAvailable the preview as then it will disable itself and never attempt again to grab a thumbnail.
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> Diffs
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>   applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ToolTipDelegate.qml 972dd62 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126591/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works.
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> File Attachments
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> single window
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/01/f0b63d68-b3e1-44dd-b4d2-43b164de7954__tooltipwithsingle.jpg
> multiple windows (one without preview)
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/01/e775eab1-9fe3-4f9a-bc18-4db75d36cca2__tooltipwithmultiple.jpg
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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