I'm developing a mod for grouping icons in the xfce tasklist plugin. Need feedback, please. :-)

[Debian Maverick]

Hey guys, I posted my mod here:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844

You can try it and let me know what you think about it. I tried my best to
make this mod work at reasonable panel sizes (from 24 to 50 px for the
panel size), but I should say that it works best for a panel size >= 38px,
that is similar to the size of a Win7/8 taskbar. I think a size of 40px is
the best, because the icons are at their full unscaled resolution, and the
little numbers are more nice to see near a big icon.




2014-04-22 10:11 GMT+02:00 Mario Rugiero <mrugiero at gmail.com>:

> I'll try it, too.
>
>
> 2014-04-21 22:20 GMT-03:00 Debian Maverick <debianmaverick at gmail.com>:
>
> Thank you! When it will be done I will publish the patch somewhere so that
>> who wants could try it. ;-)
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-22 0:52 GMT+02:00 Damian Kleiman <fliakleiman at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Debian, if you need testing just let me know and i help.
>>> Regards,
>>> Damian
>>>
>>> 2014-04-21 19:38 GMT-03:00 Rich Dennis <amerigena at gmail.com>:
>>> > I'm just a lurker on this list, but I would definitely use this.
>>> > Thanks.
>>> > amerigena
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Debian Maverick <
>>> debianmaverick at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >> in nearly all the task/dockbars I've seen until now, when you select
>>> the
>>> >> option to "group" the icons that are different instances of the same
>>> >> program, the taskbar will give you a visual feedback of the fact that
>>> more
>>> >> apps of the same type are currently open. For example, let's say you
>>> have 3
>>> >> file manager windows open. In a taskbar that permits you to "group"
>>> the
>>> >> icons, you would see only a single icon for the file manager. When
>>> you click
>>> >> on this icon (or, sometimes, you only need to pass over it with the
>>> mouse)
>>> >> you will see a list of the 3 file manager windows.
>>> >> On the bar, usually, you see some visual feedback of the fact that
>>> more
>>> >> than one app of the same type is open. In the above example, on a
>>> Windows
>>> >> 7/8 os, you would see that the icons are graphically "stacked". On
>>> Unity and
>>> >> many other dockbars you will see some dots near the icon, etc.
>>> >> So, I was surprised when I found out that this common behaviour was
>>> not
>>> >> implemented in the default XFCE tasklist plugin... You can group the
>>> icons
>>> >> and disable the labels to make the panel similar to a Win7/8 taskbar,
>>> but
>>> >> the current plugin gives you no visual feedback for the grouping, and
>>> >> therefore you cannot distinguish "real" grouped icons from the
>>> not-grouped
>>> >> ones until you left-click on them, one by one... It's not very good...
>>> >> I know that one of the objectives of XFCE is to keep it small and
>>> light,
>>> >> but, hey, I cannot imagine how such a basic functionality could be
>>> >> resource-hungry or could impact performance!
>>> >>
>>> >> So, I downloaded the latest source code of the xfce4-panel (from
>>> ubuntu
>>> >> repositories), and I started to modify the code of the taskbar plugin
>>> myself
>>> >> to see if I could get what I wanted... So far I got the following
>>> result:
>>> >> http://oi60.tinypic.com/2jaf9yw.jpg
>>> >>
>>> >> As you can see, there is a nice little number on the bottom-right of
>>> the
>>> >> grouped icons, so that you can, at a glance:
>>> >> 1) distinguish between normal button icons (no little numbers) and
>>> grouped
>>> >> ones;
>>> >> 2) you can see immediately how many open instances there are for each
>>> >> application.
>>> >>
>>> >> The patch already works, but it's in an alpha development stage.
>>> There are
>>> >> various tests to do and I should add the related option in the
>>> properties of
>>> >> the panel, so that the user could easily choose between: labels
>>> without
>>> >> grouping, labels with grouping, no labels at all, no labels + number
>>> of
>>> >> grouped instances for each application (as in the above screenshot).
>>> >>
>>> >> I would like to know what you think of this mod, and if you would use
>>> it.
>>> >>
>>> >> P.S.: Thanks to the user cavalier on the irc channel #xfce-dev for the
>>> >> precious support he gave to me.
>>> >>
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