On July 14, 2010 10:26:49 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 14, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > i think windows outside of the current activity should be hidden from the > > taskbar, at least by default. > > yes, that makes sense. > > > and this must be done in 4.5, > > only if it can be done in a way that is sensible. it won't be able to be an > optional thing because we can't introduce new strings in the 4.5 branch, so > no configuration UI is possible. so if it is added, it needs to absolutely > work because it will not only be the default ... it won't be able to be > turned off.
honestly, I hadn't planned to make it an option ever. :) > > that said, i think it may make work well since it's an active user > selection to associate the window with the activity, and the window won't > be shown when a different activity is shown. > > what will likely end up becoming a requirement, however, is a way to show > windows in other activities so that a person may find "that krita window i > had open ..." without switching to every activity manually. that sounds a > bit more like something for 4.6, though. true; I tend to lose windows even just with vdesktops :) logging out properly has become far more tedious now that I need to remember to check all desktops *and* all activities for unsaved work and session-unfriendly apps. > > > otherwise will cause another ser revolt. > > a user revolt because the windows are shown in the taskbar? seriously? > > will some people complain? sure. will some throw tomatos at us because of > it? sure, but those people will do that no matter what we do: they are > just looking for an excuse. (and for that reason i have ~zero interest in > and respect for them.) let's make decisions that make sense on their own > merit, not because the "peasants are revolting!". +1 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
