out = our.. sorry for that title typo. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was witnessing a range of very annoying task manager bugs. > > 1. I was still witnessing ghosting even with Qt 4.8.1. I haven't re-opened > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275469 yet since i think the > ghosting doesn't occur in icon tasks. > 2. I was witnessing something new in KDE 4.8 (hidden feature ^_-) called > overlapping. It's very efficient use of space and perhaps usable for > tablets but i rather dislike it. hehehe, anyway, there is a bug report for > that as well: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275469 > 3. Task Manager sometimes seems to forget which applications are pinned > which are then back when the user logs out and back in again. (restarting > plasma-desktop is probably also an option) > 4. Minimize effect could go all ways with taskmanager. Sometime even to > the middle of the screen. > > Icon Tasks has none of the above mentioned issues. And all of those issues > are really very noticeable and disruptive. It just gives a bad impression. > > Icon Tasks is probably not made with the intention to replace the current > taskbar plasmoid, but it has strangely gotten a lot better then what we > feed our users by default. It only misses a few things. > 1. Switch to disable peek > 2. Switch to show the "icons" as bars just like task manager does. > 3. Switch to sort open and closed tasks. Meaning you have all the closed > tasks as icons in the left of your taskbar and all the open ones as bars > next to the closed ones. > > Now one might argue that we should fix taskmanager. I'd agree if there was > no alternative. Icon tasks is already shipped with KDE since version 4.8 > (or 4.7?). The things that have to be added to it to make it a full > taskmanager replacement is fairly minor so why not? > > So all things considered, why don't we pull the plug for taskmanager and > start using icon tasks by default? > And would this still be on time for KDE 4.9? > > Kind regards, > Mark >
