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Hi,
yeah, this is actually what Windows 7 is doing already, but I think it is really a nice idea, so why not add support for it to KDE?
Windows 7 doesn't show up any window titles in the "taskbar" though, it would be better IMO if it would fade in under the panel icon when the application is started.
Just for clarification, here is a screenshot from Softpedia with that functionality in action.

Of course, the "old" way of seperate panel icons and taskbars should still be available even with that feature enabled, so I guess it would be best if a new plasmoid would be added which is a merger of both ones.
Advantages of this approach are for example, that it uses less space (especially as people can add more quickstart icons as they don't waste that much space anymore) and that it's more clear to the user where a specific icon is located as the arrangement never changes (unless the user does so on purpose of course).

There are two applets that are implementing similar idea, STasks (more Windows 7 like, but currently without launchers support) and Fancy Tasks (more MacOS X like, with support for launcher to task transformation).

There is a patch adding this feature being ironed out.

TheBlackCat wrote:There is a patch adding this feature being ironed out.

Really? Cool, any info on this? mailing list messages or something?

You should also check icon tasks applet:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Ic ... ent=144808

I hope we will see this feature as part of KDE. Now I have to compile that applet by myself.

Screenshot: http://kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/144808-1.png