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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Taskbar: "show windows from all desktops"
From:       Marco Martin <m4rt () libero ! it>
Date:       2004-01-18 12:51:30
Message-ID: 400A8152.4000303 () libero ! it
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Sean Lynch wrote:
> I think a nice option would be if you could somehow distinguish
> between whats on each desktop easily, such as being able to color
> each task based on there desktop (all tasks on the taskbar which
> reside on desktop 1 are blue, desktop 2 are red, etc; have this
> configurable).  Maybe if not like that, at least make it easily
> noticable which are on your current desktop by fading the others
> quite significantly, as there is already a difference showing between
>  inactive and your active window.

that sound very good (it remebers me tabs grouping in the tabbar
extension of firebird, a very handy thing that would be nice having this
in konqueror) but has a problem: if the similar tasks are
grouped in the taskbar(feature i like very much), and they belongs to
differents desktops, coloring taskbar entries is not applicable. Maybe
only the entries that belongs to the sae desktop should be grouped.

> I posted a wishlist (#63184) on bugs.kde.org with some suggestions on
> how to make the taskbar more usable when all tasks are shown.  I also
> created a mock screenshot of an idea showing a small preview of the
> app with more information on the mouseover tooltip (such as what
> desktop that app resides on, etc).  The preview would be difficult I
> presume, but I did notice that the KasBar has this (somewhat).  I do
> like how the KasBar hands things though, mainly by showing you the
> number of the desktop where that app resides.
> 
yea, it looks nice, and maybe that preview should appear also in the 
alt+tab
menu.


About the taskbar improving, there is an idea for improving the similar
tasks grouping i was thinking about for a bit: i would be a taskbar made
of two rows: in the first row it should be the list of the groups, and
in the second row it should be the lisk of the applications belonging to
the current group, i made a little mockup explaining this.
I think with this method working with multiple istances of a sdi 
program, like kwrite sould be more comfortable. I know it won't work 
very well because it's so spacewasting and selecting an application 
belongin to another group will require two clicks instead of 1, but it 
was only a rough idea that i hope will e somewhat constructive.

-- 
Mart

["taskbar-mockup.png" (image/png)]

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