Bug 345081 - Option to minimize/restore all windows in a group by click on group task
Summary: Option to minimize/restore all windows in a group by click on group task
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons-only Task Manager (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.4.1
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
URL: http://i.imgur.com/L6jd4KY.png
Keywords:
: 346393 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-03-12 09:58 UTC by Oleh Prypin
Modified: 2016-06-14 08:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/2a24828eedfb14d9a5489cbb7a6a52cf1c0169e6
Version Fixed/Implemented In: 5.7.0
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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.