On January 31, 2010, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer wrote:> About merging systray- and window-menu: I think that is not a good idea, > because we have enough space to plase two easily accessible menus, the > menus do not fit together (application/window controlling)
i don't think this is a distinction most users are capable of reliably making. this is why the dock concept as see on *Step and MacOS works at all, it seems :) > and there would be too long menus. submenus menus from growing too long. and if the application's window is in a state that it wouldn't show on the task bar (e.g. amarok's main window is closed) then we'd end up with exactly the same representation we get in the system tray today (just the one menu) with the added benefit that "amarok" is always represented in the same place. if we merged quicklaunch with it, we'd have a dock implementation for all intents and purposes. personally, i think that should be a different widget because it really is a different workflow entirely, but it is similar in the sense of trying to aggregate information about an application rather than segregate it. the notifications thing is interesting because it is really hard to aggregate that information with other application representations effectively due to their size, frequency and temporary nature. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
