Bug 160707

Summary: Task manager broken when floating
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Thomas Zander <zander>
Component: widget-taskbarAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Zander 2008-04-11 14:40:49 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)

The taskmanager is a stubbern plasmoid.  If you have it outside of your panel, just floating on your desktop, it will try to 'correct' your scaling attempts, most of the time incorrect.
Even worse; quitting and restarting plasma sometimes makes the taskmanager looks horribly small.
General rule; it keeps on getting smaller, no matter how hard you try to get it to be a nice big taskbar.

To reproduce, insert a taskmanager plasmoid somewhere on your desktop (i.e. not on a panel).
It defaults to a horizontal on.  Some 300x80 pixels or so.
Try to scale it so it becomes a vertical taskmanager.  With that I mean a taskmanager that is 250 pixels wide and 1000 pixels tall.
Using the controls, I found that it basically can't be done. (even while holding the ctrl or shift buttons).
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2008-06-15 10:19:13 UTC 
Generalising, it's now just broken when not on any panel.
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2008-07-07 23:02:58 UTC 
taskbar has changed a lot since the report, by the way doesn't try anymore to resize itself