[Differential] [Commented On] D4550: Task Manager: Make maximum text lines and minimum line length configurable for task buttons.

[Peter Palaga]

ppalaga added a comment.


  Hi Eike und Kai Uwe,
  
  Thanks for your feedback. This is my first submission here, although I am a loyal user of KDE since 2001. Please be patient with me. I may have fully inappropriate expectations and I may be violating your processes and rules. I'll be glad to hear your well-intentioned advices.
  
  I am ready to accept your disagreement about the way I took to reach my goal. I am open to discuss the means and I am not particularly bound to the two config options that you call "over-configurability".
  
  What matters to me is the goal to be able to get the vertical task manager buttons rendered with a piece of text without needing to stretch it over ~80 pixels.
  
  This is what we have now: When the width of the task bar is 82px (a minimum to host three tray icons in one row), the Task buttons are quite high (~45px, interally computed as three lines of text) with icons taking the most of the button space and there is no space for the text left.
  F2441918: desired.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F2441918>
  
  In the desired state, the Icons can somehow be made smaller so that they do not take the most of the button space and so that there is enough space left for a few letters from the window title.
  In this way, it is possible to recognize which window is which without activating them.
  F2441917: current.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F2441917>
  
  Note, that the desired state is something that we always had in a horizontal task manager. I mean that even if there are many Task buttons in a horizontal manager, even that many that the buttons get as narrow as ~80px, it is still possible to make the task manager to render the buttons with both icons and text. This is because the height of the task bar imposes a natural upper boundary for the task button height and eo ipso for the icon height *and* width. Hence if I want text in narrow buttons I can simply decrease the height of the whole task bar, that makes the icons smaller and prepares more space for text. Unfortunately, there is no such indirect way to force smaller icons in a vertical task bar.
  Through adopting the present goal, we will just add the capability we have in the horizontal task manager to the vertical task manager.
  
  Note also that the vertical tool manager used to work as described in the desired state till KDE 3.5. This might be taken as solving an old regression.
  
  I hope the sketched goal is worthwhile and that we can discuss how to reach it without "over-configuration". My original proposal (call it (A)) is just one possibility.
  You are probably much more experienced in not over-configuring things and will thus be so kind to propose other ways how to make the buttons in vertical managers to show some text?

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