FEATURE: 368430
FIXED-IN: 5.18.0
Being able to disable grouping for the icons-only task manager makes sense, because it has enough space to hold plenty of application icons/launchers. The "Show only tasks that are minimized" option is useful as well for the IOTM.
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- R119:5174aa9e1a29: Add grouping and "Show Only Minimized" options to icons-only task manager
Open the IOTM behavior settings page. Enable/disable grouping and toggle the "Show only tasks that are minimized" option.
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Code's fine, but let's discuss the change briefly - disabling grouping in ITM gets you a bunch of identical-looking icons you can't tell apart. I think that's a pretty ugly user experience, does it make sense to have an option to configure the applet into an invariably sort of unpleasant to use state? That's why I resisted it in the past.
There's already the option to disable grouping for specific apps. Having an option to disable it for all aps is a feature that gets requested from time to time and you can get it on for example Latte Dock, Cinnamon, LXDE/LXQt or Windows with registry edit tweaks.
Also:
- it is not an issue if you have a pretty consistent set of windows open, so you just remember which is which
- you can tell from tooltip
- if you have no minimize button it is very useful
- just let the user decide
I personally would use this feature.
@hein If you really still think we shouldn't do this then I can change this patch to only affect the "Show Only Minimized" option and close the bug as INTENTIONAL.
FWIW the bug this fixes (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368430) is starting to accumulate duplicates. There seems to be some user demand for this.
Let's go for it, it's fairly in line with the TM applet refectoring we planned in Valencia at the end of the day