https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456408
mouse <shattered_min...@yahoo.com> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from mouse <shattered_min...@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> That's quite an exotic use case! :)
>
> The bad news is that I'm pretty sure we can't support it in the Task Manager
> as it's quite out of scope.
>
> The good news is that I think you can get something even better:
> - Remove the Task Manager from your panel
> - Add an Active Window Control widget to your panel, which will give you
> window control buttons for the active window
> - Add a Window List widget to your panel if access to individual windows via
> a secondary GUI is still needed
>
> Plasma is quite flexible for use cases like this so hopefully you can find
> something that works for you using the tools it already has
This is kind of what I'm talking about:
-Task Manager
-Icons-only Task Manager
-Active Window Control
-Window List
-Title Bars
There are so many entities that are all individually doing almost the full job
but not quite. Each one needs at least one of the other to provide full
functionality/ease of use. There is a lot of redundancy here and it wastes
screen space and development time/resources to maintain each individual widget.
That said, I really like Active Window Control. I had no idea it existed and
it's so close to being exactly what I want. But I've noticed several issues:
-The pin button doesn't actually pin/unpin a window to all desktops. This most
certainly seems to be a bug. (I'm on KDE Plasma Version 5.25.2)
-There's no mute/unmute button for windows that play audio.
-I personally would love if it extended itself to inactive windows as well. I'm
sure this goes against its mantra or prime directive or whatever, but that one
aspect is the biggest blockade preventing it from making all of the other
entities obsolete.
Window List is a drop down menu, which is even more clicks to access the same
basic functionality the others provide.
Icons-only Task Manager is pretty nice but it seems like it should be a toggle
setting in Task Manager's configuration menu. One problem though is the
mute/unmute button is so small. I wasn't even sure if it was actually there. I
have to scale the icon spacing to the largest for the mute/unmute button to
scale up to a practical size. But increasing the spacing like this also
undermines what I am assuming is its purpose; to conserve space.
The combination of Active Window Control and Icons-only Task Manager isn't a
bad combo but I still have to switch focus to have access to the same shortcuts
in the title bar and that's more extra steps. The less clicks, the better.
Anyways, I'm glad you like the screenshot and I'm sorry I keep eating up your
time. I believe window tiling is the future and this whole title bar/task
manager fuss is one of the awkward growing pains sure to arise along the way to
that future. I just wish I wasn't the one making the fuss. >.>
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