Hey guys, I posted my mod here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844
You can try it and let me know what you think about it. I tried my best to make this mod work at reasonable panel sizes (from 24 to 50 px for the panel size), but I should say that it works best for a panel size >= 38px, that is similar to the size of a Win7/8 taskbar. I think a size of 40px is the best, because the icons are at their full unscaled resolution, and the little numbers are more nice to see near a big icon. 2014-04-22 10:11 GMT+02:00 Mario Rugiero <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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