Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 4.2.3 OS: Linux When a large number of windows is open, the task manager becomes hardly usable because the entries are too small.
Created attachment 24923 [details] Screenshot showing the problem
*** Bug 164136 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
My idea from (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163920, dup of this) was to add scrollbars on-fly. Another idea would (if another wish would be implemented -- dynamic taskbar, which could be bigger than panel) to simply add rows on-fly.
*** Bug 164857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 164912 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 163920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Next one idea - collect buttons of multiple windows of the same application to one node (button for windows of text processor, browser, file manager etc.)
ad.#7) yes, but _optionally_
Re #8 - OK ;?)
Grouping of Tasks in the taskbar is in work...
simply 2 rows of tasks would already be nice
Created attachment 25614 [details] Re #11 more rows - it seems this work is partially done or there is a chance do it
Ladislav, this is taskbar, not a systray.
I think problem will be fully resolved if 2 things will be implemented: 1) Multirow task list 2) Grouping of same windows in taskbar optionaly turning that features on or off in the taskmanager settings will be great. As i know none of them is implemented for now, am i right?
Fully resolved? Not really, note that (2) is hardly a solution -- how often you get into problems by running four instances of KDevelop or Kate? Me -- never. Ladislav here presented (#7) very nice idea -- grouping not by program but by category. Multirows is of course needed but you cannot really fix the problem with no space for entry just by making them smaller (rows have to fit somewhere, right?). All those idea given here are important, but all of them, not only 1 or 2 of them -- grouping (by program or by category), multirows and "scrollbars". Of course new ideas are welcome :-) Btw. MacOSX solution (5th idea) would also could help in solving this (autozoom on hover).
I would suggest adding an option to only have iconified programs show up in the taskbar. This is a *much* missed feature of KDE3 that would keep the taskmanager from being all cluttered up.
When I write "iconified programs", I actually mean programs that are minimized... just to avoid any confusion.
marking as dupe of multiple rows, though it's really a dupe of a couple bugs; should be broken into more fine-grained issues, thankfully we already have reports that are. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163935 ***