Bug 163935

Summary:	Taskbar doesn't show tasks in multiple rows
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Matej Repinc <mrepinc>
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	al4321, aseigo, bjoern, bluedzins, chapinjeff, colin.thomson, erik_hahn, jfrantzius, LpSolit, marcelovborro, yaroslav.sapozhnik
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Matej Repinc 2008-06-13 00:17:39 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

When multiple tasks are opened taskbar doesn't show them in multiple rows but it just squeezes them in one row so it looks very ugly, plus you can't read name of the application in taskbar.

Comment 1 Yuriy Kozlov 2008-06-19 02:28:58 UTC

Same here in a nightly build.  Was working fine in 4.0.5

Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2008-06-21 21:17:51 UTC

Same here.

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-06-25 11:10:32 UTC

Number of rows should be configurable, to prevent taskbar being too "smart" (the way user does not want to).

Comment 4 Jonathan Harper 2008-07-16 17:45:46 UTC

Agree with Maciej, it ought to be configurable.

Comment 5 rodrigo pelorosso 2008-07-17 04:50:16 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-07-31 21:54:04 UTC

*** Bug 162568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Fabio Varesano 2008-08-01 03:23:02 UTC

maybe this could be useful: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/multirows+task+manager+by+8siem?content=83177

Comment 8 Matej Repinc 2008-08-01 12:23:58 UTC

Hmmm, maybe it should be backported and released with 4.1.1 as an alternative task bar...

Comment 9 Christophe Marin 2008-08-09 19:47:25 UTC

*** Bug 168814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Björn Ruberg 2008-08-23 11:12:34 UTC

A working backport of the multiple row taskbar for kde 4.1 can be found here:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/kare.sars/KDE/tasks2.tar.gz

Got it from the comments on kde-look.org and its made available by the user sars

Comment 11 Shawn Sharpe 2008-08-28 23:12:09 UTC

Yes I think this would be really helpful.

Comment 12 chapinjeff 2009-02-19 01:57:29 UTC

I can confirm this is also occurring on kde4.2.0 on fedora10, still

Comment 13 Jörg von Frantzius 2009-02-19 10:16:25 UTC

With latest updates from openSUSE KDE factory repos and Qt 4.5 in particular, I now get two rows of icons in the taskbar. Seems to have been fixed with Qt 4.5.