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

[Eike Hein]

> On Jan. 1, 2016, 8:18 p.m., 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.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     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)

I've sometimes considered making the text label in task buttons marquee on hover ... but it might look pretty silly, especially in multi-line cases.

For now this would be a -1 from my side, I feel resizing is more bothersome than the empty preview area.


- Eike


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On Jan. 1, 2016, 6:38 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 1, 2016, 6:38 p.m.)
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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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