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 <debianmaver...@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. > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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