Bug 157644

Summary: taskbar in vertical panel looks awfull
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: shift
Component: widget-taskbarAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aseigo, bluedzins, chanika
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description shift 2008-02-11 02:34:08 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

When Taskbar goes vertical instead of horizontal, it should
1) keep a stardard toolbar-icon-size height of items,
2) should not start 2nd column of items when there are many of them. (IMHO scrolling is a better idea in this case, which on my desktop occurs only when i open >50 windows, which happes very seldom) 

right now (v.4.0.1), when taskbar is in a vertical panel (for example, the one attached to the right, and having about 200pixels wide), first items become like very large squares about >200pixels high! after ~20th-30th window open, it starts a second column. (probably it correlates with bug #155974) -- in case of vertical and wide taskbar, i think, its not right. I think a user with-lots-of-windows-open would preffer to have a window titles rather large window icons visible. 

PS: the previous behavior in KDE3 was perfect, when i attached Extended Taskbar to the upper-right corner, and had it 200 pixels wide, i had simple item's list, very handy to navigate with mousewheel!
Comment 1 shift 2008-02-11 02:39:51 UTC 
just an idea: 
playing with taskbar for a while, i find that when there are not-much windows open (say, <10) it would be more comfortable to have desktop-icon-size (like 64x64, 2row title text) items in taskbar, gradually reducing their sizes with more windows open, for example, untill they become 16x16, 1row title text, filling 2/3 of screen height, and when the fill whole screen, only then start scrolling.
Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-03-02 16:20:46 UTC 
*** Bug 158657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Marco Martin 2008-03-03 18:24:43 UTC 
in svn it no longer has a second column in vertical panels, however i keep it open because it still needs:
-a less huge size when tere are only few items
-some kind of scrolling when there are too many tasks (at the moment they get hidden)
the last one seems a little bit more tricky
Comment 4 Fry 2008-07-26 03:21:02 UTC 
I'd first like to thank the Plasma guys for all the work they've put in. I've already adopted KDE4 as my default. :) I do miss a useful vertical taskbar, though.

Sebastian tells me that the only other annoyance I had with panel behaviour (163630) will be ready for KDE4.2. Once again, keep up the good work.

-Fry-