https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448912
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Severity|task |wishlist
CC| |n...@kde.org
Summary|Combine Icons-only Task |Combine Task Manager and
|Manager and Windows List |Icons-only Task Manager and
|and provide an option to |provide an internal config
|show or hide labels instead |option to switch between
| |their usage modes
--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
> Task Manager and Icons-only Task Manager behaves exactly the same
They do not: The traditional Task Manager shows all non-dialog windows with
text, and only groups items when when it runs out of space. It has the
provision for a separated launcher area. The Icons-Only Task Manager
automatically groups all windows into apps with no labels, and it has no
separate launcher; the launchers become the open windows/apps. The TTM
implements the classic Windows-Vista-and-earlier taskbar, while the IOTM
implements a "dock" paradigm.
> Combining those two into just "Window List" (I think that this name makes
> more sense for this widget) and
> providing an option to show or hide labels would make reduce complexity
There is already an applet called "Window List" that shows all windows,
including transient pop-ups and dialogs. So I don't think we could use that
name.
> which indicates that they are pratically the same thing.
Indeed, internally they are practically the same thing; they use the same
codebase, it's just that they're divided into multiple widgets because their
purposes are different.
What we could maybe do is have a single Task manager applet with a
configuration UI in its config window to switch between "Dock mode" and
"Traditional mode" or whatever. I'm not against that, but it's just a different
way of expressing the same concept, really. It would make it easier to switch
between modes for people who look for this in the applet's settings, but harder
for people who look for it in the Alternatives popup.
Not sure it's worth doing.
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