--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Zack Rusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Zack Rusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: taskbar: onlyGroupWhenFull > > Well, all your googling proves is that Microsoft along with > Apple and KDE all > groups tasks by default, which is pretty much the opposite > what you're arguing > for. > Fortunately for us we have usability experts and instead of > complaining about > things you don't like you can go and ask them. > KDE4 nicely supports hovering over the taskbar to display the information about each task without even clicking on them. Additionally, whenever possible, I prefer those applications that have a tabbing feature for the job I want to do. I think that this feature remains in developers' minds as a habit from the tabless days.
> This is how my panel looks without grouping: > http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/panel.png > and this is only showing tasks from the current desktop. I > have to click on > each and every item in the taskbar to find anything. While > I'm certainly a very > special kind of user, your argument for pointlessness of > grouping tasks is > obviously bogus. > > z Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. Nevertheless there are times when my taskbar becomes similar. But (probably because of my physicist nature that always keeps me aware of my background tasks) I want to have it that way. I can tell what each task is doing with my eyes closed in most cases. Well maybe me and possibly all the people I talked to (mostly scientists and engineers) belong those special kind of users. Hence for now there is nothing I can do other than recommending a study on this. I think having a page in kde.org for such surveys will do a great job in helping with decisions for defaults. And I can (and am willing to) help with building such a page. I'd be happy if you can tell me what would be my next steps. Thanks, Orcan _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
