Bug 345081

Summary:	Option to minimize/restore all windows in a group by click on group task
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Oleh Prypin <oleh>
Component:	Icons-only Task Manager	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bad63r, oleh, plasma-bugs-null, r3m1.benoit, sebastian.gottfried
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.4.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://i.imgur.com/L6jd4KY.png
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/2a24828eedfb14d9a5489cbb7a6a52cf1c0169e6	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.7.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Oleh Prypin 2015-03-12 09:58:04 UTC

Icons-only task manager in Plasma 5 has much, much less configurability than before. The settings that it used to have were important to me,

in particular changing the behavior of clicking on an icon that represents a group of windows. I am not interested in getting an overview of those windows, but instead would like to minimize/restore all of them, which was possible in KDE4.

On the linked screenshot you can see a comparison of the settings windows. Note that the one in KDE4 has multiple tabs as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Icons-Only Task Manager
2. Go to its settings

Actual Results:  
Few settings

Expected Results:  
Rich configurability

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2015-03-12 13:28:46 UTC

Big round-up tickets can't be processed efficiently; please limit tickets to specific features like the minimize/restore group example.

Comment 2 Eike Hein 2015-05-19 13:36:24 UTC

*** Bug 346393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Tom 2015-07-18 23:12:54 UTC

Ye , I miss that settings too. But i think they will import that settings later.

Comment 4 Oleh Prypin 2015-09-21 20:16:16 UTC

This remains 60% of the reason why I'm still using KDE 4.

Comment 5 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-06-13 22:15:37 UTC

Git commit 2a24828eedfb14d9a5489cbb7a6a52cf1c0169e6 by Kai Uwe Broulik.
Committed on 13/06/2016 at 22:03.
Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'.

[Task Manager] Allow minimizing/restoring windows/groups by middle clicking
FIXED-IN: 5.7.0

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D1853

M  +1    -0    applets/taskmanager/package/contents/config/main.xml
M  +1    -1    applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml
M  +2    -0    applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml
M  +2    -1    applets/taskmanager/plugin/backend.h

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/2a24828eedfb14d9a5489cbb7a6a52cf1c0169e6

Comment 6 Sebastian Gottfried 2016-06-14 08:25:22 UTC

Finally my preferred way of switching tasks returns :) Many thanks.

If this new option would be available for left click as well, it would be perfect. 

I'll have little use for the distracting full-screen window switcher normally bound to left click, but launching new instances by middle click is a thing I do regularly. I can probably train myself to never never use left click in the task manager, but it would be nice if I doesn't have to.