Bug 184655

Summary:	Wish: Quicklaunch plasma widget: hide icons of the launched applications
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Lionel Chauvin <megabigbug>
Component:	widget-quicklaunch	Assignee:	Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	asraniel, megabigbug, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Lionel Chauvin 2009-02-17 14:44:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Some people don't use the quicklaunch applet because it uses precious space in the panel.
Moreover many applications don't need to be launched twice.
My idea is to automatically hide an icon of the applet when the corresponding application is displayed on the screen.
The hidden icons could be accessible in the same way as the hidden icons of the systray applet.

In windows 7, MS has merged the quicklaunch and the taskbar. It use less space because texts are not displayed. I don't think their choice is the best because it is less readable.
My idea is a good compromise.

Comment 1 Beat Wolf 2009-08-10 21:34:50 UTC

I don't think this is the purpose of the quicklaunch applet. If you need this functionality, you can use one of the "intelligent" task applets like stasks and others.