<div dir="ltr"><div>Second version of my patch released on <a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844</a><br><br></div>I think now it's much better than before, with many little alignment problems solved and the icons scale properly from 16 to 40 pixel for the panel size. <br>
<br>Let me know what do you think about it! :-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-25 0:41 GMT+02:00 Debian Maverick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debianmaverick@gmail.com" target="_blank">debianmaverick@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hey guys, I posted my mod here: <a href="https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10844</a><br>
<br></div>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.<br>
<div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-22 10:11 GMT+02:00 Mario Rugiero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrugiero@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrugiero@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'll try it, too.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-21 22:20 GMT-03:00 Debian Maverick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debianmaverick@gmail.com" target="_blank">debianmaverick@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you! When it will be done I will publish the patch somewhere so that who wants could try it. ;-)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-22 0:52 GMT+02:00 Damian Kleiman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fliakleiman@gmail.com" target="_blank">fliakleiman@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Debian, if you need testing just let me know and i help.<br>
Regards,<br>
Damian<br>
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2014-04-21 19:38 GMT-03:00 Rich Dennis <<a href="mailto:amerigena@gmail.com" target="_blank">amerigena@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div>> I'm just a lurker on this list, but I would definitely use this.<br>
> Thanks.<br>
> amerigena<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Debian Maverick <<a href="mailto:debianmaverick@gmail.com" target="_blank">debianmaverick@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>> in nearly all the task/dockbars I've seen until now, when you select the<br>
>> option to "group" the icons that are different instances of the same<br>
>> program, the taskbar will give you a visual feedback of the fact that more<br>
>> apps of the same type are currently open. For example, let's say you have 3<br>
>> file manager windows open. In a taskbar that permits you to "group" the<br>
>> icons, you would see only a single icon for the file manager. When you click<br>
>> on this icon (or, sometimes, you only need to pass over it with the mouse)<br>
>> you will see a list of the 3 file manager windows.<br>
>> On the bar, usually, you see some visual feedback of the fact that more<br>
>> than one app of the same type is open. In the above example, on a Windows<br>
>> 7/8 os, you would see that the icons are graphically "stacked". On Unity and<br>
>> many other dockbars you will see some dots near the icon, etc.<br>
>> So, I was surprised when I found out that this common behaviour was not<br>
>> implemented in the default XFCE tasklist plugin... You can group the icons<br>
>> and disable the labels to make the panel similar to a Win7/8 taskbar, but<br>
>> the current plugin gives you no visual feedback for the grouping, and<br>
>> therefore you cannot distinguish "real" grouped icons from the not-grouped<br>
>> ones until you left-click on them, one by one... It's not very good...<br>
>> I know that one of the objectives of XFCE is to keep it small and light,<br>
>> but, hey, I cannot imagine how such a basic functionality could be<br>
>> resource-hungry or could impact performance!<br>
>><br>
>> So, I downloaded the latest source code of the xfce4-panel (from ubuntu<br>
>> repositories), and I started to modify the code of the taskbar plugin myself<br>
>> to see if I could get what I wanted... So far I got the following result:<br>
>> <a href="http://oi60.tinypic.com/2jaf9yw.jpg" target="_blank">http://oi60.tinypic.com/2jaf9yw.jpg</a><br>
>><br>
>> As you can see, there is a nice little number on the bottom-right of the<br>
>> grouped icons, so that you can, at a glance:<br>
>> 1) distinguish between normal button icons (no little numbers) and grouped<br>
>> ones;<br>
>> 2) you can see immediately how many open instances there are for each<br>
>> application.<br>
>><br>
>> The patch already works, but it's in an alpha development stage. There are<br>
>> various tests to do and I should add the related option in the properties of<br>
>> the panel, so that the user could easily choose between: labels without<br>
>> grouping, labels with grouping, no labels at all, no labels + number of<br>
>> grouped instances for each application (as in the above screenshot).<br>
>><br>
>> I would like to know what you think of this mod, and if you would use it.<br>
>><br>
>> P.S.: Thanks to the user cavalier on the irc channel #xfce-dev for the<br>
>> precious support he gave to me.<br>
>><br>
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