On Wednesday 26 October 2011 17:24:08 Craig Drummond wrote: > On 26/10/11 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 15:13:02 Craig Drummond wrote: > >> Then you simply cannot pin the application to the taskbar. Is that such a > >> big deal? > > > > it would be a regression with no justifiable argument for why it should > > regress. > > > > a good exercise is to imagine explaining it to a user why that one entry > > couldn't be added. > > Its not really a regression. Currently the existing taskbar cannot > create a launcher for LibreOffice - whereas IconTasks can. The only > cases where IconTasks will not create a launcher, where current taskbar > may, is when no desktop file is present. But I dont see this as that big > a deal. > > > additionally, for the corner cases where nothing can be done (due to not > > being able to locate the executable in some fasion) we may wish to simply > > disable the action. > > Well how would I know nothing can be done? Just because the automatic > matching did not work, doesn't mean that the app's desktop file is not > installed. For instance, for wine apps IconTasks will *always* prompt > for the user to select the app - as there, currently, is no easy way to > determine this. (The existing taskbar creates a launcher for 'wine', and > not the windows app) > > So in this regard, the matching, etc, *is* better. > > The only current regression would be for existing launchers that have > their details embedded in the config file (as I said this happens for > system settings). But this could probably be resolved by using an > internal launcher URL that points to the embedded details. > > Craig.
I don't think that the normal user will be able to find the desktop file manually in the filesystem. The experienced user can still add the desktop-file easily per drag&drop (provided the applet supports it). That said, I must admit that the creating the launcher without desktop-file doesn't work as well as I wanted, so I would also support your idea despite my objections concerning usability :) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
