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Modified version of KDE 4.7 taskbar applet and taskmanager library.
Modifications:
1. Show only icons (no text) in taskbar.
2. When a launcher is activated, place the task's taskbar entry at the same location as the launcher.
3. Tasks with no associated launcher, are placed after launcher tasks (unless alphabetically sorted).
4. Always group tasks.
5. Only allow launchers for items with .desktop files
6. Add a dialog to manually set the association from a window to a .desktop file - so that launcher can be created.
7. Add option to activate/iconify whole group when left button is pressed (taken from SmoothTasks). If disabled, then present windows is used for the group.
8. Use oxygen '+' icon to indicate a collpased group.
9. Use middle button to launch new instance of a task.
10. Attempt to place start-up spinner over launcher/task.
11. Add option to always use the launcher icon for taskbar entry - even when app is active. This works-around the issue where some applications (e.g. LibreOffice) have a different launcher/menu icon than the actual app uses.
12. Workaround an issue with a tasks attention state.
13. More tasks shown in tooltips.
14. Close tasks via tooltips.
15. Show right-click menu for task in tooltips.
16. Option to show job progress over task icon.
17. DockManager API support
18. Media player buttons in tooltips
19. Unity API
9 years ago
0.9.2
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1. Allow DockManager "icon-file" to refer to an icon name.
2. Add DockManager API extension (capability "x-kde-dock-item-overlay", dock item property "x-kde-overlay") to allow plugins to specify an overlay icon to be placed top-left of icon.
3. Dont attempt to get commandline for pid 0 - seems to crash KSysGuard library.
4. Use plasma themed close icon for tooltips.
5. Clear any exising entries before showing recent documents menu.
6. When reloading xbel/office recent documents, only clear old documents of that type.
7. When an action is marked as a separator, add a separator to the menu - just adding the action leads to an entry that looks like a menu title.
8. Read LibreOffice 3.4 recent documents from recently-used.xbel
9. Fix DockManager::GetItemsByPid
0.9.1
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1. When changing tooltip from one item to the next, call the toolTipHidden slot - so that the item can unregister from the tooltip signals.
2. Fix compilation with KDE less than 4.7
3. Fix dockmanager plugin sub-menus.
4. If compiled against KDE 4.8, dont need IconTask specific taskmanager.
0.9.0
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1. Use KSysGuard libraries to read process information.
2. Only ever show the separator if we actually have some launchers.
3. Rename taskmanagerrc to taskmanagerrulesrc
4. Middle click on tooltip is same as middle click on task.
5. Add middle click option - "Move To Current Desktop"
6. When manually moving launchers/tasks, move immediately rather than showing the drop indicator. The previous behaviour may be re-enabled by passing -DICON_TASKS_SHOW_DROP_INDICATOR_FOR_MOVE=true to cmake.
7. If there are too many windows for tooltip, display "Plus X more..."
8. Better calculation of rws and columns in tooltip.
9. Fix not being able to interact with first launcher/entry whilst a task is starting.
10. Fix totally broken dockmanager config UI.
11. Dont check if filename changes dock dockmanager, always update if an icon name is set.
12. Only store 1 container of launchers - not map for launchers, and list for sort order.
13. Fix detection of kcmodule launchers.
14. Try not to use exec() to open config dialogs, so as to not freeze plasma!
15. Remove usage of custom properties in QActions for menus.
16. Use standard KOpenWithDialog to select applications. Allows creation of non-desktop based launchers.
17. Save launcher lock state in applet, not taskmanager library.
18. All changes to taskmanager library are now in KDE/master. Because of this there is no 'basic' menu setting, as the menus have been re-arranged. The only difference between IconTasks's taskmanager and KDE (as of 4.8) taskmanager is the name of the Advanced sub menu. In KDE/master this is now know as "More Actions"
19. Don't set DESKTOP_SESSION to ubuntu, UnityFox has been updated an version 0.2.2 no longer requires this. For an updated UnityFox see:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unityfox/versions/
9 years ago
0.9.2
=====
1. Allow DockManager "icon-file" to refer to an icon name.
2. Add DockManager API extension (capability "x-kde-dock-item-overlay", dock item property "x-kde-overlay") to allow plugins to specify an overlay icon to be placed top-left of icon.
3. Dont attempt to get commandline for pid 0 - seems to crash KSysGuard library.
4. Use plasma themed close icon for tooltips.
5. Clear any exising entries before showing recent documents menu.
6. When reloading xbel/office recent documents, only clear old documents of that type.
7. When an action is marked as a separator, add a separator to the menu - just adding the action leads to an entry that looks like a menu title.
8. Read LibreOffice 3.4 recent documents from recently-used.xbel
9. Fix DockManager::GetItemsByPid
0.9.1
=====
1. When changing tooltip from one item to the next, call the toolTipHidden slot - so that the item can unregister from the tooltip signals.
2. Fix compilation with KDE less than 4.7
3. Fix dockmanager plugin sub-menus.
4. If compiled against KDE 4.8, dont need IconTask specific taskmanager.
0.9.0
=====
1. Use KSysGuard libraries to read process information.
2. Only ever show the separator if we actually have some launchers.
3. Rename taskmanagerrc to taskmanagerrulesrc
4. Middle click on tooltip is same as middle click on task.
5. Add middle click option - "Move To Current Desktop"
6. When manually moving launchers/tasks, move immediately rather than showing the drop indicator. The previous behaviour may be re-enabled by passing -DICON_TASKS_SHOW_DROP_INDICATOR_FOR_MOVE=true to cmake.
7. If there are too many windows for tooltip, display "Plus X more..."
8. Better calculation of rws and columns in tooltip.
9. Fix not being able to interact with first launcher/entry whilst a task is starting.
10. Fix totally broken dockmanager config UI.
11. Dont check if filename changes dock dockmanager, always update if an icon name is set.
12. Only store 1 container of launchers - not map for launchers, and list for sort order.
13. Fix detection of kcmodule launchers.
14. Try not to use exec() to open config dialogs, so as to not freeze plasma!
15. Remove usage of custom properties in QActions for menus.
16. Use standard KOpenWithDialog to select applications. Allows creation of non-desktop based launchers.
17. Save launcher lock state in applet, not taskmanager library.
18. All changes to taskmanager library are now in KDE/master. Because of this there is no 'basic' menu setting, as the menus have been re-arranged. The only difference between IconTasks's taskmanager and KDE (as of 4.8) taskmanager is the name of the Advanced sub menu. In KDE/master this is now know as "More Actions"
19. Don't set DESKTOP_SESSION to ubuntu, UnityFox has been updated an version 0.2.2 no longer requires this. For an updated UnityFox see:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unityfox/versions/
CraigD
9 years ago
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CraigD
9 years ago
Do you have a backtrace?
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schnelle
9 years ago
This happens with 0.8 version. I will upgrade to 0.8.2 and report back.
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CraigD
9 years ago
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robyshot
9 years ago
anyway this taskbar rocks!
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CraigD
9 years ago
The following is a script to set the amarok icon to the current track's cover art:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dockmanager+amarok+cover+script?content=141002
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cmost
9 years ago
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hlebarkata
9 years ago
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pbuard
9 years ago
And to further expand its user base ;-) I made a (unofficial) package for Arch Linux https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53444.
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D--
9 years ago
this plasmoid is becoming very popular, yours is actually the second AUR package of Icon Tasks :-)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51961
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pbuard
9 years ago
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tobaj
9 years ago
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AlejandroNova
9 years ago
1. The thing I loved the most about your app is an apparently stupid, but great, thing: the double-barred separator. I have missed that since KDE 3.5.x. Please, can you make a Separator plasmoid? (a double bar that I can insert in a panel, does nothing, and the only thing I can configure it for is the space on both sides of the bars, perfect for sorting some wacky designs).
2. I'll join to the request of small numbers in the task bar visually grouping tasks into virtual desktops. If you mix that with the Activity Switch plasmoid, you have a great combo. I also remember with love that little feature of the Kicker taskbar.
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kal8888
9 years ago
Looks like a good idea :)
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herrbatka
9 years ago
1: kwrite, konsole 2: dolphin, rekonq 3: kid3 4:
Where app names are app icons and numbers are desktop names. Pressing the number sends you to the desired desktop (unless you are there, then adding show desktop or show grid like in pager would be awesome) and you can drag app from one desktop to another (but that sounds tricky). Although it does not play well with dock-like funcionality those who are using sort by desktop could like it.
And another quetion: could you add maximize/restore button (and minimise to...) to the tooltip, just next to close button on tooltip, please? I'm hidding titlebar on maxed windows and using kwin buttons plasmoid and it's more or less ok but I would prefer tooltips.
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CraigD
9 years ago
Window controls: I think this would crowd the tooltip too much. You can access the other controls via the right-click menu on the tooltip. (Just noticed that this also shows unity, etc. menus - which I will remove...)
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herrbatka
9 years ago
Well the buttons in the tooltip is just my caprice, so this is just my point of view: the tooltip already can be increased in the configuration.
But you are probably right, 3 buttons on the tooltip is just to much.
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Eruaran
9 years ago
Do you realize that 99% of average users will NEVER install this? They'll just give up in frustration and, like me, wonder why the developer hasn't made it so that it is easily installable at least through the "Install Widget From Local File" dialogue??
Or at least providing clear step by step instructions... at least...
No doubt I'll get flamed for this post but it needs to be said. The problem of developers doing this kind of thing existed back in 2005 when I first started using KDE and it still exists now... in 2011... Completely defeating the purpose of all the work KDE developers have done to provide an interface that is reasonably easy for users to use.
The bottom line: Its just too hard for the average person to install.
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hlebarkata
9 years ago
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google01103
9 years ago
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Eruaran
9 years ago
Do you realize that 99% of average users will NEVER install this? They'll just give up in frustration and, like me, wonder why the developer hasn't made it so that it is easily installable at least through the "Install Widget From Local File" dialogue??
Or at least providing clear step by step instructions... at least...
No doubt I'll get flamed for this post but it needs to be said. The problem of developers doing this kind of thing existed back in 2005 when I first started using KDE and it still exists now... in 2011... Completely defeating the purpose of all the work KDE developers have done to provide an interface that is reasonably easy for users to use.
The bottom line: Its just too hard for the average person to install.
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robinparadise
9 years ago
- gcc-c++
- git
- cmake
- kdebase-workspace-dev
- libxrender-dev
- libx11-dev
Do this:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake kdelibs5-dev kdebase-workspace-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev git
then continue with the instructions to install Icontasks ...
To build and install:
0. Go to downloaded and unzipped package
1. mkdir build
2. cd build
3. sudo cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
4. sudo make
5. sudo make install
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robinparadise
9 years ago
I did and had no problems
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crematory3
9 years ago
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Eruaran
9 years ago
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