Summary: | Text on taskbar disappears when there's still lots of room for it (wasn't as bad pre-4.5) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | Jonathan M Davis <bugs.kde.org> |
Component: | widget-taskbar | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | vljubovic, zanetu |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.10.4 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jonathan M Davis
2010-09-03 04:50:14 UTC
I hope there will an option that specifies the threshold of taskbar entry width that triggers "icon-only" display mode. For my part, I don't like icon-only task bar and would like to see labels with text on taskbar all the time. (Dock is more suitable for icon-only display mode.) Therefore an option that disables "icon-only" mode is even better for me. Closing for lack of feedback. Please feel free to reopen this report if you can still reproduce this with KDE 4.8.3 or later. Reason for this bug is the following code: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/entry/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks/abstracttaskitem.cpp?rev=KDE%2F4.10 lines 568-570: QFontMetrics fm(font()); const int minimumWidth = left + 8 + IconTextSpacing + right; m_showText = (size().width() >= fm.width("M") * 6 + minimumWidth); Text is not shown if task item width is below certain constant, which is basically width of 6 characters "M" in current font + some margins. I disagree with such view, personally I don't need more than one letter & icon to recognize the window I want. So I kindly ask that this bug is reopened and maintainer changes this magic constant 6 to something smaller. (Above link is for KDE 4.10 branch. Task manager plasmoid was recently rewritten in QML but I'm not sure that code will be used until KDE 5.0) This is definitely still happening (KDE 4.10.4), and it's highly annoying. As long as you can have even _one_ character next to the icon, I want it. I typically have 15+ windows open per screen, per desktop, and many of them are the same programe (e.g. konsole or Konqueror), and at least some of the time, that one letter would help to differentiate between Windows without having to click on them in the taskar. sorry, 1 letter is not going to happen. it is not useful for the vast majority of people, it produces a lot of visual noise (that many more than the people commenting on this report have given negative feedback about) for little signal. a configuration option is not an option here either. sorry. if you really, really, really must have this, i suggest maintaining an alternative version. |