Is it possible?
There doesn't seem to be any configuration option to remove the captions from taskbar entries.

I can work out what application each entry represents from the icon, so there's no need to clutter things up with un-needed text as well. It would be nice to be able to get rid of it.

Bug 171679

I heard that someone's working on a Windows 7-like taskbar, can anyone confirm if this is true?

You could make use of a dock such as awn or cairo and remove the "Task manager" widget from the panel. IIRC, Awn (avant window navigator) also has a task manager plugin.

LinuxIsInnovation wrote:You could make use of a dock such as awn or cairo and remove the "Task manager" widget from the panel. IIRC, Awn (avant window navigator) also has a task manager plugin.

Interesting suggestions. But the problem with using standalone taskmanagers is that windows don't respect their space, so often end up with bits hidden behind them. I'm actually very fond of KDE3's Kasbar which would integrate into a panel in KDE3, so it worked really nicely. Unfortunately, though I can run Kasbar by copying a few files from my pre-KDE4 backups, it will only run as a standalone app in KDE4, so it suffers from the same problem again.

I did try cairo, but I didn't like it; awn could be interesting, but it has a hell of a lot of dependencies (a fair chunk of Gnome, by the look of it) and no guarantee that it'll suit me.

One of the nice things I like about Kasbar is that I can shove a vertical taskbar at the top-right of my screen, so it's nice and tidy. If I could get rid of the text from the standard taskbar, that would work as well...

There's a plasmoid, which may be what you're looking for. I haven't tried it, though:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/PeachyDock?content=78494

Alec wrote:There's a plasmoid, which may be what you're looking for. I haven't tried it, though:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/PeachyDock?content=78494

Thanks. It looks like it might do the job. All I need now is for Ubuntu to have the right packages so I can build it (something cocked-up, but beyond me), though looking at some of the comments on that page, it may not build anyway :-@

beermad wrote:Is it possible?
There doesn't seem to be any configuration option to remove the captions from taskbar entries.

I can work out what application each entry represents from the icon, so there's no need to clutter things up with un-needed text as well. It would be nice to be able to get rid of it.

I was taking another look at KDE4 for the first time in ages today, and raised this wishlist item: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183786

Is that the same as you're asking for?

thricenightly wrote:I was taking another look at KDE4 for the first time in ages today, and raised this wishlist item: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183786

Is that the same as you're asking for?

It is indeed. So I've added my votes for your feature request.

...which also seems to probably answer my original question :-P

Hans wrote:Bug 171679

I heard that someone's working on a Windows 7-like taskbar, can anyone confirm if this is true?

This bug has been closed as a duplicate, if you voted for it please change your vote to Bug 159480

Maybe something like this:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=99739
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=99737

will help?

Those are more doc-like, I was hoping for the option to use an otherwise normal taskbar without labels.

You might want to try STasks

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=99739

here is it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY_0xSdyy6s

Provides an icon-only taskbar a la windows7. Not complete though. Missing the ability to group or alphabetize open programs. However, it looks like a promising start so far.

ssri wrote:You might want to try STasks

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=99739

Provides an icon-only taskbar a la windows7. Not complete though. Missing the ability to group or alphabetize open programs. However, it looks like a promising start so far.

Looks promising, but I'll have to wait until (if!) it gets included in Kubutu. because I've never managed to get any KDE stuff to compile on my system. cmake never manages to find FindKDE4Internal.cmake even when I make sure it's in the path cmake says it's searching :-@

beermad wrote:

ssri wrote:You might want to try STasks

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.ph ... tent=99739

Provides an icon-only taskbar a la windows7. Not complete though. Missing the ability to group or alphabetize open programs. However, it looks like a promising start so far.

Looks promising, but I'll have to wait until (if!) it gets included in Kubutu. because I've never managed to get any KDE stuff to compile on my system. cmake never manages to find FindKDE4Internal.cmake even when I make sure it's in the path cmake says it's searching :-@

for this problem you should post on a *buntu forum as it's distro specific (or maybe the *buntu forum here), though I don't use it my experience is that the *buntu community is both large and helpful.

beermad wrote:Looks promising, but I'll have to wait until (if!) it gets included in Kubutu. because I've never managed to get any KDE stuff to compile on my system. cmake never manages to find FindKDE4Internal.cmake even when I make sure it's in the path cmake says it's searching :-@

Read the new packaging guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages