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. 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel