Thank you! When it will be done I will publish the patch somewhere so that who wants could try it. ;-)
2014-04-22 0:52 GMT+02:00 Damian Kleiman <[email protected]>: > Hi Debian, if you need testing just let me know and i help. > Regards, > Damian > > 2014-04-21 19:38 GMT-03:00 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 > > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >
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