Am 26.10.2011 13:30, schrieb Craig Drummond:
For the last couple of months I've been working on an icon-only task
bar called IconTasks. (I've just uploaded the latest, 0.8.1, to
kde-look -
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Icon+Tasks?content=144808)
This contains a forked version of taskmanager, which I would like to
fold back into the main taskmanager code. Seeing as soft feature
freeze is on the 27th (tomorrow!), I thought I should ask if it is ok
to add this to the feature plan. (Also, should I add IconTasks itself
(say for plasma-addons) as well?)
I think it's great that you want to bring back your changes :-) And
given the positive feedback I have heard for your tasks implementation I
would like to see this in 4.8, so yes please add it to the feature
plan.
The main changes to the taskmanager library aren't really that much;
1. I've changed the way launchers are stored - this is so that I can
save the order, so that users may manually re-order them. This means
code would need to be written to convert any existing config to this
new scheme.
You can do that with a KConfig Update script. There's some good
documentation on techbase about it.
2. When 'pinning' an app to the taskbar where the taskmanager cannot
determine the desktop file (as happens even for System Settings!),
the
existing taskmanager embeds a copy of the tasks icon, and other
details, into the plasma config file. Icon Tasks instead will prompt
the user to select the app from the list of installed applications.
That sounds reasonable, though the best solution would be to fix the
mapping, but that might be a frameworks task (what I have in mind is a
_KDE_NET_WM_DESKTOP_FILE property which is set on the window
automatically)
3. I've added more queries to attempt to automatically determine the
desktop file for a window. If this fails, the user is prompted to
manually set the launcher.
4. Option to have simple right-click menus for tasks
5. 'Start New Instance' right-click action.
For both 4 and 5 it would be nice to redo the complete menu and
structure it in a better way as well as to share it with KWin. We had a
small discussion about it on the KWin list, but somehow nobody did
something about it :-(
6. Allow applet to supply task actions to appear at top of
right-click menu. This is where IconTasks will place
DockManager/Unity
supplied menus, and display the list of recent documents.
nice
...and that's basically it for the taskmanager changes. There's a
*lot* of debug code, #ifdef'ed out, that would need to be removed.
The
only sticking point, AFAIK, will be the reading of pre-existing
launchers where these are not mapped to a .desktop file. As I said,
IconTasks does not support this - and I don't think embedding the
icon, etc, in the config file is a good idea anyway.
So, should I add these changes to the feature plan? I wont actually
do any merges without posting diffs for review first. Or is it just
too late, in which case I can wait for 4.9 :-)
We have two weeks for review and I am sure our users would appreciate
it, so yes please add :-)
Cheers
Martin
Craig.
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