I'll try it, too.
2014-04-21 22:20 GMT-03:00 Debian Maverick <[email protected]>: > 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 >> > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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