> On Jan. 4, 2016, 7:58 a.m., Heiko Tietze wrote: > > Pretty cool stuff. Guess there will some greediness from other launchers. > > On the first glance I read the tool as a launcher for Unity, which would be > > weird. So I suggest to think about renaming, maybe just without the space. > > Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > I was thinking if it makes sense to indicate application progress here, > too, ie. that copying a file in Dolphin should also be indicated similarly to > the Unity stuff (in addition to the progress in notification area, though). > The old icon tasks had this, in which case this would no longer be > Unity-specific. I don't know if Gnome has a similar API. there's also dock > manager API used by Cairo Dock but afaict it is deprecated.
@Heiko: The name "Unity Launcher API" is really just the API that is used in the background (and we cannot change that name anyway), it's not user-visible anywhere - Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126621/#review90524 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Jan. 3, 2016, 11:18 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126621/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Jan. 3, 2016, 11:18 p.m.) > > > Review request for Plasma, KDE Usability, Craig Drummond, Eike Hein, and > Lukáš Tinkl. > > > Bugs: 343632 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343632 > > > Repository: plasma-desktop > > > Description > ------- > > This adds support for the Unity Launcher API [1] with which applications can > show a progress indicator, a number badge as well as demand the user's > attention. > > This functionality has been present in the Icon Tasks applet [2] in Plasma 4 > times. libunity must be present for most applications to actually use this. > > I did not want to pollute libtaskmanager with this, so I made it a plugin in > the Task Manager applet, which should also be fairly trivial to update to the > new Launcher API that Unity 8 is going to use [3], or if we come up with our > own solution at some point, maybe. > > The primary focus is still the icons only task manager as the Unity API works > on a per-application/per-launcher basis rather than per-window, however, > where it makes sense the functonality is also offered to the traditional task > manager. A downside of this is that (in the current implementation, anyways) > in case you do not group your tasks and you have multiple windows of the same > task open, it will show the same information on all entries. > > For progress it gradually fills up the background of the task (VDG: I need a > better graphic here, I currently abuse the "hover" tasks SVG, also I find the > "+2" badge less than optimal) in all cases. The badges are only shown if 1) > the cell is large enough 2) the label is *not* shown (ie. icon tasks manager > or the regular one in very narrow). The badge is just a circle in theme > highlight color, not an actual SVG - it cuts off part of the icon to provide > more contrast. The "urgent" state just highlights the entry as if it > requested attention, there's no wiggle animation and this is nowhere > integrated with the window manager, also I did not find an application that > used this, so I have no idea how it's used by them. > > A video with the regular task manager on the top, a regular task manager and > an icon tasks applet in the left panel and an icon tasks applet on the > desktop (the latter is broken in the video, fixed in this patch) can be found > here [4]. > > (There's still a ton of qDebug in the code at this point) > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI > [2] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Icon+Tasks?content=144808 > [3] > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity8/trunk/files/head:/plugins/Unity/Launcher/ > [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBPGjlP6Wd8 > > > Diffs > ----- > > applets/taskmanager/CMakeLists.txt 3c94cb7 > applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml 2a88886 > applets/taskmanager/plugin/taskmanagerplugin.cpp 1be1fed > applets/taskmanager/plugin/unitylauncher/unitylauncherbackend.h > PRE-CREATION > applets/taskmanager/plugin/unitylauncher/unitylauncherbackend.cpp > PRE-CREATION > applets/taskmanager/plugin/unitylauncher/unitylauncheritem.h PRE-CREATION > applets/taskmanager/plugin/unitylauncher/unitylauncheritem.cpp PRE-CREATION > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126621/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > I started a download in Chromium and got progress as well as a badge > indicating how many download jobs were in progress. Thunderbird also > registered a launcher on DBus but it never actually set a badge although I > had unread mail. > > > File Attachments > ---------------- > > Unity Launchers > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/03/c4c552a5-0449-47b1-a7f2-35ac20886cd0__unitylauncherstuff.png > Two unrelated windows > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/03/3817426d-42e7-4aca-9478-2774f6908589__twounrelatedlaunchers.png > > > Thanks, > > Kai Uwe Broulik > >
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