Please add a feture for task manager to remember positions of each program relatively to each other, and automaticaly move them to their positions. After relogin, when you start all programs that you usually have running, you always have to move task manager elements to their custom position, for making them quikly accessable as you used to. It would be great if task manager will remember custom positions. For example: 1-st -- dolphin 2-nd -- firefox 3-rd -- ktorrent 4-th -- deadbeef Reproducible: Always
Any update on this for plasma 5?
If you want this feature, you can use the Icons-Only task manager, which does remember app locations. I'm not sure it makes sense to add this to the normal task manager, since the interaction paradigm there is for items to appear in the order they're launched.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > If you want this feature, you can use the Icons-Only task manager, which > does remember app locations. And what if someone doesn't want to use an icon-only task manager? > I'm not sure it makes sense to add this to the > normal task manager, since the interaction paradigm there is for items to > appear in the order they're launched. That is the sort of developer-centric crap that made people leave Gnome.
Patches are always welcome! :) The problem is that the UI paradigm of the normal task manager doesn't really support remembering window positions. It wouldn't make sense for most users, and most of the people who want consistent positioning use the Icons-Only Task Manager, which is designed for that. As mentioned: there is a workaround: use the Icons-Only Task Manager. If you don't like the Icons-Only Task Manager, then I'm sorry you're unhappy. It doesn't help anybody to have ancient feature requests like these open forever if nobody has any intention of implementing them. It just makes the bug tracker less useful and people don't use it, which hurts the overall development effort. Like I said, patches are welcome. If you want this feature and can code up something that works, we'll definitely consider it.