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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 159480] Hide labels or icons in taskbar
From:       "Aaron J.Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-08-31 21:17:14
Message-ID: 20100831211714.E25CC63802 () immanuel ! kde ! org
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159480


Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #70 from Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo kde org>  2010-08-31 23:17:08 ---
so now that everyone has had their chance to share their philosophical ideas
and share their reasoning / thoughts, let's try this one more time:

this feature will not be included in the default tasks widget. feel free to
create / use an alternate widget (someone's already done that, even).

for those who are confused as to "why the developers don't just do whatever a
random set of N people tell them to", let me offer an explanation by answering
this:

"But if people ask about something, maybe they find it good idea and you
shouldn't scrap it only cause you personally don't like it ?"

it has absolutely nothing to do with personally liking it or not.

see, i have to create a tasks widget that millions of people use. you aren't my
only "customers" when it comes to the tasks widget. so i (and the others who
work on this particular component) have to make decisions as to how best to
service all of those people.

the unsurprising conclusion is that it is absolutely impossible to please
everyone.

if we put every possible option, or even just every option that more than 5 or
10 or even 50 people asked for into the default tasks widget, the configuration
UI would become unusable and the code would become a nightmare to maintain,
probably to the point of making stability infeasible. been there, done that. we
also have to keep in mind issues of consistency and compliance with the
foundational design goals and concepts for plasma-desktop.

the tasks widget is already a very complex beast and it already supports a
large number of features, each of which have been deemed to have significant
enough value to justify the costs.

this particular feature doesn't.

it may for you, but we're not creating a destkop shell just for you personally.
we're creating it for the 10s of millions of KDE users.

fortunately, we realize that there will always be those are not happy with
things. so we made everything a replaceable component. that includes the tasks
widget. you can replace it with something else. if it is too hard to do so,
then speak with your distributor to include some alternatives by default in
their package repositories.

now, i'm closing this once more as had already been done. do not re-open it, as
this decision is final. i also think that i've been more than reasonable and
patient with everyone on this report and would ask for the same treatment in
return. 

thank you.

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