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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kicker applet handles
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! TU-Berlin ! DE>
Date:       2000-04-25 13:06:45
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 11:30:01PM -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:

Hiya,

> So it occured to me that I would rather have the handles hidden by
> default.  I thought of somehow "shrinking" it or fading it out or
> something... but the easiest (by far) way would be to just hide it
> except for when the cursor is above it.
> 
> I've attached a patch that does it.  What do y'all think?

fine with me. Another thing: why don't the handles use the same drawing
routine as KToolBar? It's quite the same functionality, so IMHO it should
look the same as well.

And while I'm at it: the new layouting stuff in kicker surely is very nice
and flexible, BUTHH [TM by Kalle, IIRC]
the previous behavior had this nice feature, that you could resize the
taskbar easily. I often have many many terminals (ok, this has reduced
by konsole's ultracool internal taskbar) and a lot of netscapes, and a
while ago, I could simply enlargen the taskbar by putting it on top of the
buttons. Now this isn't possible anymore, because there is no "layering".

Possible solutions to many tasks are IMHO:
- open an "external" taskbar which can resize independently from kicker's
  appletarea
- the ability to group taskbar-items together, e.g. put all netscapes into
  one taskbar-button, with a context-menu to access the individual items

Opinions?

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer
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