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Hi,

The idea would be to have, through the task manager settings page, the possibility to enter a set of 'filters' onto what the task manager widget will display.

The goal would be to have a panel containing a task manager that would be set to only display all the Firefox instances or all the browser instances (Konqueror + Firefox + Chrome) or only the editing software applications, only GVim, etc.

Ideally, filtering should be done on application choice, simple string matching or complex regex matching.

Thanks,
Laurent

I think this would make it far too complicated, honestly. I don't really see it being that useful. If you really want to separate applications like this, you can use multiple desktops.

Hi,

I already use multiple desktops, it's not about that, its just to be able to filter out some kind of user-specific view onto a task manager applet.

I believe that it would be really useful, maybe its usage isn't obvious now.

Laurent

Perhaps it would be worthwhile explaining some use-cases for this.

The overall goal would be to unclutter the main task manager by taking out the permanent or semi-permanent used software.

You create a panel with a 'filtered' task manager in the following cases:

- group your kopete, skype, ekiga, irc and browser with facebook and twitter (like a comunication panel for instance)
- group all your 'startup' applications
- group all your excel spreadsheets and constantly-needed-for-reference documents
- group all your monitoring tools
- group all your consoles + network tools

I believe it's a simple way to unlock more desktop customisation possibilities.

You can set a starting script for your grand mother loading up specific apps she always needs (magnifier, news reader, nitting patterns, blah) and set a new panel with those apps in there and filtering them out from the main panel.

A whitelist/blacklist option split choice would be handy. The lists should be accessible via all filtered task managers to be able to show the 'opposite' of a given filtered task manager.

What do you think?

Once again, I don't know why you wouldn't just use virtual desktops for this grouping.