From kde-core-devel  Wed May 16 13:15:56 2001
From: m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:15:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: taskbar grouping, off by default please.
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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 14:51, Ralf Nolden wrote:

> The toplevel mode is not the default either :-)
> BTW this feature was exactly thought for people that use apps with this
> behavoir like Gimp. Gimp is one of the most widely used apps on Linux
> and this will stay this way for the user. We're all talking from the
> *Developers* point of view here, but not from the users. We should
> accept that the users have different preferences and that we as
> developers like it *different* which requires US to deselect features,
> not all users IMHO. This is selfish if we all claim "let's put this off
> by default because I can't handle it". We'll end of that we can do
> everything but nobody's using it because we put it off by default.
> Please follow tackat's suggestion to leave it on to see if we get
> complaints by the users.

Discussion closed, it will remain the default for Beta 1 to get more user=
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feedback. Up to now I have not received any real complaints about this=20
feature. Only one user who did not like it was unable to find the=20
configuration option to turn it off. But I don't feel religious about thi=
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feature. The implementation was motivated by popular request. People were=
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asking for task grouping. If it turns out that it confuses more users tha=
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makes happy it will be off by default in KDE 2.2 final.

Greetings,
Matthias