On Friday 16 January 2009, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:31 +0100, Martin Gräßlin > > <k...@martin-graesslin.com> wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2009 19:15:55 you wrote: > >> On Friday 16 January 2009, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > >> > Please have a look at the attached patch and give comments on it ;-) > >> > >> before this goes in (and the patch looks ok at first read) i think we > >> may > >> want to step back and ask ourselves: > >> > >> "Do we really want a task bar that behaves exactly like the current task > >> bar, except that it has no text?" > >> > >> - or - > >> > >> "Do we want a task bar that actually has the semantics of a dock?" > >> > >> if the latter, we ought to create a sperate widget. this new widget and > >> the > >> tasks widget can certainly share a lot of code and classes, but i don't > >> think that shoving more and more options in and complicating the code > >> more > >> and more makes the most sense if what we really want is a dock when it's > >> all said and done. > > > > Personally I would like to have a dock and of course I thought of a dock > > when > > starting to work on this part ;-) But first of all for me only icons > > would be > > enough for saving space ;-) I don't know how much work it would be to > > get a > > dock starting from the tasks widget. Most of the functionality of the > > tasks > > widget will be needed in a dock, too. Of course the quicklaunch > > functionality > > has to be added and saving the positions, etc. > > > >> btw, in the code, instead of doing the checkedState comparison, you can > >> just do isChecked(). so much shorter =) checkedState only really matters > >> for tristate controls. > > > > I just wanted to keep the code consistent to the existing checks ;-) > > Since everyone is now talking about a dock i just wanted to say that i > don't like the dock at all(at least the OSX one..) > I can't see any advantage apart from the fancy look and the quick access > to some apps (which could be overcome with a simple > quickstart applet placed next to the taskbar). Other than that i think it > just takes away space from the taskbar which could be used to identify > tasks.
just to throw ideas around, what about a dock that looks exactly as a taskbar, so with icons+text? maybe having the text or not would be the thing that distinguish running and not running tasks... > But if you have some fancier ideas than apple, please let me know ;-) > > To get back to topic, i quite like your patch and from my pov we could > integrate it (although i couldn't live with only icons) > and will probably never use it =). > > What i don't understand is how you're able to distinguish between multiple > windows of the same app. > Since we want to have soon a popup showing real TaskGroupItems it would > also not work with grouped windows. > This has to be considered maybe... > > Regards _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
