Thanks to you for the feedback. :-)
2014-04-22 0:38 GMT+02:00 Rich Dennis <[email protected]>: > I'm just a lurker on this list, but I would definitely use this. > Thanks. > amerigena > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Debian Maverick <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> in nearly all the task/dockbars I've seen until now, when you select the >> option to "group" the icons that are different instances of the same >> program, the taskbar will give you a visual feedback of the fact that more >> apps of the same type are currently open. For example, let's say you have 3 >> file manager windows open. In a taskbar that permits you to "group" the >> icons, you would see only a single icon for the file manager. When you >> click on this icon (or, sometimes, you only need to pass over it with the >> mouse) you will see a list of the 3 file manager windows. >> On the bar, usually, you see some visual feedback of the fact that more >> than one app of the same type is open. In the above example, on a Windows >> 7/8 os, you would see that the icons are graphically "stacked". On Unity >> and many other dockbars you will see some dots near the icon, etc. >> So, I was surprised when I found out that this common behaviour was not >> implemented in the default XFCE tasklist plugin... You can group the icons >> and disable the labels to make the panel similar to a Win7/8 taskbar, but >> the current plugin gives you no visual feedback for the grouping, and >> therefore you cannot distinguish "real" grouped icons from the not-grouped >> ones until you left-click on them, one by one... It's not very good... >> I know that one of the objectives of XFCE is to keep it small and light, >> but, hey, I cannot imagine how such a basic functionality could be >> resource-hungry or could impact performance! >> >> So, I downloaded the latest source code of the xfce4-panel (from ubuntu >> repositories), and I started to modify the code of the taskbar plugin >> myself to see if I could get what I wanted... So far I got the following >> result: http://oi60.tinypic.com/2jaf9yw.jpg >> >> As you can see, there is a nice little number on the bottom-right of the >> grouped icons, so that you can, at a glance: >> 1) distinguish between normal button icons (no little numbers) and >> grouped ones; >> 2) you can see immediately how many open instances there are for each >> application. >> >> The patch already works, but it's in an alpha development stage. There >> are various tests to do and I should add the related option in the >> properties of the panel, so that the user could easily choose between: >> labels without grouping, labels with grouping, no labels at all, no labels >> + number of grouped instances for each application (as in the above >> screenshot). >> >> I would like to know what you think of this mod, and if you would use it. >> >> P.S.: Thanks to the user cavalier on the irc channel #xfce-dev for the >> precious support he gave to me. >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> >> > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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