https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447561
Bug ID: 447561
Summary: Always show window titles (when combining windows into
a single button is disabled)
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.23.4
Platform: openSUSE RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager
Assignee: h...@kde.org
Reporter: groszdaniel...@gmail.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
For several years, the Task Bar only shows the icons of the applications once
the items get narrower than some threshold, I presume for aesthetic reasons. (I
mean the normal Task Bar, not the Icons Only one of course).
I think I've realized why this doesn't bother most people: I guess most people
the option to group windows, and combine them into a single button, enabled;
since they can tell the application by the icon, there is no harm in hiding the
title. However, I've always disabled window grouping/combining, so that I can
get to any window with one click. And even one letter can help disambiguate
windows of the same application.
You could add an option whether to show the icon only when taskbar items get
narrow. However, the above suggests another option that avoids cluttering the
settings with another check box: always show the beginning of window titles
(however little there is space for) when the "Combine into single button"
option is disabled, but retain the current behavior when it's enabled. The
current behavior is probably fine for those who enable that option, while those
who disable it would likely to prefer to see the first letter or two of the
title than to just see identical icons.
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