It used to be the case that when you minimize a window there was an entry for that window in the panel. This is no longer true. I can find the processes with "ps -u uid", but I am unable to locate a mechanism for restoring the application. This is not an improvement. Short of killing off and restarting the application, how can I use my minimized applications again?

Add either the pager plasmoid or the list window list plasmoid to the panel.

edit I wrote pager but I ment to write task manager... sry

Thank you, thank you. Now a question for KDE developers: given that this is traditional behavior and given that minimized programs are useless without some mechanism to restore them, is there any comprehensible reason why "task manager" on the panel is not the default? KDE 4 is so, SO, *SO* hard to use nowadays.

which distribution are you using?
In all distribution that I have tried have taskmanager is in the panel.

I upgraded KDE 3.5 on SuSE 11.1 to KDE 4.4 on SuSE 11.3.
(I use the "leap frog" upgrade technique. KDE 4.2 on SuSE 11.2
remains dormant on my system. I will upgrade that next,
if I do not revert to it.)

bkorb wrote:Thank you, thank you. Now a question for KDE developers: given that this is traditional behavior and given that minimized programs are useless without some mechanism to restore them, is there any comprehensible reason why "task manager" on the panel is not the default? KDE 4 is so, SO, *SO* hard to use nowadays.

If it isn't there by default, blame your distro. I have yet to see one without it activated by default though.

Oh, and another method which sometimes is faster: alt-f2. Start typing the name of the minimized app and you should get an option to activate its window.

As far as I am aware, openSUSE has it present by default, as shown in their screenshots. This is likely caused by an outdated Plasma configuration.