hide running programs option
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I was trying to think of ways to accomplish the Os X dock/windows 7 superbar* from a functional standpoint using existing plasma widgets. It occurred to me this could be broken up into two separate parts: a task bar that only shows open programs, and a quick launch bar that only shows programs that are not open. Basically, when you launch a program from the quick launch widget, it disappears from that widget and appears in the task manager. This is already how the task manager works, so a simple way to accomplish the same function would be for the existing quick launch widget to have an option "hide running programs". That way, when you launch a program, it appears to vanish from the quick launch widget and appear in the task manager. It doesn't matter how you launch the program, be it from the quick launch widget, a different quick launch widget, application launcher, run command interfaces, command line, the program will still be hidden in all quick launcher widgets that feature it. This allows you to have as many quick launch widgets and as many task managers as you want, and you can have the quick launch widgets and task managers as near or far from each other as you want.
*Both windows 7 and Mac OS X have a feature that amounts to a quick launch bar where, when a program is launched, it seamlessly transitions into being a task manager. This is not possible without a new plasma widget combining a task manager and a quick launch system, and there are already brainstorm ideas about this.
Last edited by TheBlackCat on Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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One point. I personally use filter to show windows from same desktop. In this way I couldn't launch browser from desktop 2, if it is opened in desktop 1 (?)
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That is correct, although I don't think it would be any different for a dock-style launcher.
Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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A problem with the proposed approach is that the ordering of buttons changes constantly. I'm voting the idea down for this single reason. The idea itself is good, but the implementation proposal is flawed from a usability POV.
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Do you have a better solution? This would not be enabled by default, people would have to explicitly turn it on.
Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-NASA in 1965 |
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