Bug 152700 - Grouping of tasks in the taskbar
Summary: Grouping of tasks in the taskbar
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-taskbar (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords:
: 168976 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-11-22 11:31 UTC by Joseph Wenninger
Modified: 2008-12-21 20:52 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Joseph Wenninger 2007-11-22 11:31:05 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.96.0)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:                Linux

*) Most of the time I've got about 30 to 40 windows/applications open, therefor I noticed that:
   1) taskbar grouping is missing in plasma
   2) a two lined taskbar possibility (as in kde3) would be nice

*) The animation if a new window is being opened takes ages to settle down
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2007-11-22 19:28:25 UTC
Q: how can you tell when someone finds plasma?
A: they ask about (or file) the same 4-5 not-yet-implemented features as everyone else that's come before them.

Q: how often to people find plasma?
A: several times a day.

thanks for the bug reports, but all of these reports are (well) known issues.

at this point in plasma development, can i suggest just sending me an email with the list of things all at once and i can just answer it there easily? less time for both of us.

most are these items are being actively discussed by the developers on the mailing list or irc (and by discussed i mean "coming up with patches") as we're working on solutions for them.
Comment 2 Jason Stubbs 2007-12-16 07:50:13 UTC
Marking as a wish because plasma is new software rather than a kde4 port of kicker & friends.
Comment 3 Jörg von Frantzius 2008-07-31 12:52:13 UTC
Still no grouping or multiple rows in KDE 4.1. That makes Taskmanager pretty much unusable with a lot of windows open.

All in all there is 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152700 (this one: grouping) 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162568 (both grouping and multiple rows)
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163935 (multiple rows)

It seems to me that #162568 depends on the other two (is it possible to set a depends-on relationship between bugs with this bugzilla?)

Comment 4 Médéric Boquien 2008-08-12 15:40:27 UTC
*** Bug 168976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Michael Meier 2008-08-20 15:21:59 UTC
Q: How can you tell when something is going wrong in a software project?
A: Users try to help by submitting bug reports but get flamed for it.

This bug has been reported in November 2007. Almost one (1) year later:
- the issue is still not resolved
- there is no indication in Bugzilla that it is even being worked at
- the bug report is still set to "NEW"

So how are users supposed to know if it's a "known issue"? 

What should be:
- the issue should long be resolved, IMO this is an important feature
- the bug 152700 should have been handled (assigned, closed or whatever)
Comment 6 Christoph Wiesen 2008-08-20 15:43:07 UTC
As mentioned in a similar bug (#163935) part of the problem might be solvable by integrating elements of this Plasmoid (replacement for widget-taskbar):
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/multirows+task+manager+by+8siem?content=83177
It provides mutliple rows. Maybe the author already started something about grouping as well, the readme mentions something along those lines.
Comment 7 Michael Meier 2008-09-29 09:45:57 UTC
Thanks for that link. Currently, grouping is not implemented in that alternative taskbar. IMHO, the KDE team should ASAP clarify whether, when and how they plan to implement grouping.

The very vague plans mentioned in the task applet subdirectory "future/GROUPING" are outdated and give no clue about when this feature will come, if at all. Developers like the person who wrote/modified that alternative taskbar should have this kind of information in order to decide what to implement themselves and what to wait for.



Comment 8 Michael Meier 2008-10-08 14:56:03 UTC
Grouping has finally been implemented (see latest SVN). Thanks to the KDE devs and sorry for being that impatient! ;-)
Comment 9 Todd 2008-11-12 05:40:26 UTC
Are the compositing-based taskbar thumbnails going to be supported for groups?
Comment 10 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-11-13 05:40:49 UTC
@Todd: eventually; right now we don't show thumbnails for all windows in the group, just for non-grouped items.
Comment 11 Eric Emsellem 2008-12-21 20:52:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Grouping has finally been implemented (see latest SVN). Thanks to the KDE devs
> and sorry for being that impatient! ;-)
> 

In which version is this implemented? I just installed the recent opensuse 11.1 with kde 4.1 and it does not seem to be there!