From kde-usability  Tue Aug 27 11:37:05 2002
From: Frederik Himpe <fhimpe () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:37:05 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: KDE Taskbar: grouping similar tasks
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=103044835017138

Now the taskbar is set by default to group similar tasks. This did not
seem very intuitive to my father coming from a Win2000 environment
(although the problem was worsened heavily by the fact that several
instances of OpenOffice.org were grouped as "VCLSalFrame", a problem
which should be fixed now according to
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4830).

I think we should leave on this option by default, as it is very good
when you have a lot of windows open. But, I think the grouping should
only be done when there is need to, when the entries in the taskbar
would become too small to read them. Now it is rather confusing and
unnecessary to group two instances of Konqueror when you haven't opened
any other applications. For example start grouping tasks when the
buttons would become smaller than 120px otherwise.

Frederik Himpe


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