D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

ngraham added a comment. Oh, I see. REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D12463 To: Fuchs, hein Cc: fabianr, ngraham, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mo

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

Fuchs added a comment. Then as soon as you actually run the app there will be a duplicate, the launcher and the entry in the task manager. If I understood correctly, pinned tabs in browsers avoid that. You have a small, icon only variant when not open and a full variant (at the same position

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

ngraham added a comment. I'm talking about an actual launcher widget in the panel, nothing to do with the Task Manager's own pinning support. Launcher widgets in the panel are used for launching apps and will never move around, which is exactly what this patch is implementing within the Task

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

Fuchs added a comment. If I remember correctly, the main argument against the launcher was that pinned apps should be pinned and thus not change their location / order, but exactly that would happen with a launcher once you open the app (that, or a duplicate entry in the window list) REPOSI

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

ngraham added a comment. It occurs to me that this is basically the exact use case for adding a launcher widget to the panel, and using it would be an almost identical final user experience. In both cases, you wind up with an immovable launcher that doesn't change its location in response to

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

fabianr added a comment. +1 As soon as there are enough tasks in the task bar, that you can not any longer read the title at a glimpse or the tasks start to group the task bar, it looses so much of its usefulness. In groups you have to hover , wait, move the mouse and click to activate a

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

ngraham added a comment. I do like this as a vastly superior replacement for "minimize to tray", yeah. REPOSITORY R119 Plasma Desktop REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D12463 To: Fuchs, hein Cc: ngraham, plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreute

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

Fuchs added a comment. In D12463#252419 , @ngraham wrote: > This is a neat feature, but I worry that it would muddy the difference between the regular task manager and the icons-only task manager. It's not inconceivable that a user wanting to ge

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

ngraham added a comment. This is a neat feature, but I worry that it would muddy the difference between the regular task manager and the icons-only task manager. It's not inconceivable that a user wanting to get an IOTM-style panel would resort to using this feature to force every single win

D12463: Add support for icon-only tasks (what browsers call pinned tabs)

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