
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
This is a fork of mbaszczewskis STasks plasmoid. For the original STasks code go there:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/STasks?content=99739
This taskbar replacement has window peeking similar to Windows 7 when you use the kwin 'highlight window' effect. Even if this effect is not used you can click the tooltip in order to activate the corresponding window.
About Launcher Support, Grouping and Sorting:
A feature often requested in the comments is support for launchers and a more comprehensive context menu. Because the information about which task items there are, their grouping, sorting and state (minimized, demands attention, is active, ...) and even their context menu is all provided by libtaskmanager, such feature requests should be directed to kdelibs. I wrote a wishlist entry in the kde bugtracker for these features: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207902 If you want this feature vote for this wish.
Update:
Launcher support exists in KDE 4.6. I will incorporate this feature once KDE 4.6 is available in Fedora (and I have time).
Update 2:
I pulled all changes made by flupp and jimi312, which amongst other things add launcher support. You can download the most recent source directly from the mercurial repository:
https://bitbucket.org/panzi/smooth-tasks/get/tip.tar.bz2
However, because I experienced some bugs with the launcher support (sometimes they are shown when the associated app is running and sometimes they are not shown when the associated app is not running) I did not make a new release yet. If I can find the bugs in a few hours tomorrow (2nd Apr 2011) or flupp/jimi312 fix them I will make a new release. I don't know how much time I have to work on Smooth Tasks. :/
Update 3:
The mentioned bugs concerning launchers seem also to be present with KDE's original taskbar, so I think the bug lies in libtaskmanager and not in Smooth Tasks.
Bugreports and Wishes:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/smooth-tasks/issues/
Packages:
Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora have official packages.
Fedora:
sudo yum install kde-plasma-smooth-tasks
And to get meaningful backtraces:
sudo debuginfo-install kde-plasma-smooth-tasks
Note: I didn't check the validity of any of these packages!
Poll: Which Layout should stay?
I have created a poll about which of the various layouts supported by Smooth Tasks should be kept and which I can drop:
http://twtpoll.com/dm5m96
Please participate in this poll so I know whether I have to bother with supporting all of the currently provided layouts. In case you do not use multiple rows please choose the first option. In this case most layouts should look the same anyway.
10 years ago
wip 2010-11-06:
FIX: drop whole groups onto pager (removed workaround for KDE < 4.5 which could not handle groups at all)
FIX: when dragging a task only a tiny bit it's position was not reset
Maybe FIX: a very rare tooltip positioning bug (I have o wait if it reoccurs)
wip 2010-11-05 update 1:
FIX: fixed unwanted highlight behaviour change which reintroduces flickering :(
wip 2010-11-05:
FIX: tooltip appearance and background blur under KDE 4.5 (someone once sent me a patch for this but I cant find this message any more so I figured it out myself by looking at KDE sources)
FIX: less flickering for the kwin highlight effect
wip 2010-02-27:
FIX: less flickering for the window preview effect because I removed the kwin highlight effect bug workaround (that bug was obviously fixed in kde 4.4)
FIX: crash when right-click on startup item, thanks to anonymous
wip 2010-02-13 update 2:
FIX: hopefully fixed bug concerning missing taskbar entries
For the full list of changes see:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/smooth-tasks/src/tip/ChangeLog
10 years ago
wip 2010-11-06:
FIX: drop whole groups onto pager (removed workaround for KDE < 4.5 which could not handle groups at all)
FIX: when dragging a task only a tiny bit it's position was not reset
Maybe FIX: a very rare tooltip positioning bug (I have o wait if it reoccurs)
wip 2010-11-05 update 1:
FIX: fixed unwanted highlight behaviour change which reintroduces flickering :(
wip 2010-11-05:
FIX: tooltip appearance and background blur under KDE 4.5 (someone once sent me a patch for this but I cant find this message any more so I figured it out myself by looking at KDE sources)
FIX: less flickering for the kwin highlight effect
wip 2010-02-27:
FIX: less flickering for the window preview effect because I removed the kwin highlight effect bug workaround (that bug was obviously fixed in kde 4.4)
FIX: crash when right-click on startup item, thanks to anonymous
wip 2010-02-13 update 2:
FIX: hopefully fixed bug concerning missing taskbar entries
For the full list of changes see:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/smooth-tasks/src/tip/ChangeLog
Landis
7 years ago
bummer,
Landis.
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joergm2706
9 years ago
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ssri
9 years ago
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Dhraakellian
9 years ago
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ssri
9 years ago
Thanks for making me eat my words, as I too noticed the lack of expanding tasks when I started using icon-tasks. Okay, off to compile flupp's fork.
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jts74
9 years ago
Icon tasks also has no option to disable automatic grouping, which is another major annoyance.
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Otamay
9 years ago
https://bitbucket.org/flupp/smooth-tasks-fork
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jts74
9 years ago
https://bitbucket.org/flupp/smooth-tasks-fork/issue/13/compiling-fails-in-4780#comment-902594
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marcs
9 years ago
Thanks!
PS: The "symbol windowbar" in kdeplasma-addons is nice but lacks the ability to display text.
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jts74
9 years ago
Save the patch as say fix_kde4.8_compilation.patch
Apply to the source with
patch -p 2 < fix_kde4.8_compilation.patch
compile as per instructions in INSTALL file in source folder
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sumski
9 years ago
I'm getting build errors:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/rawlog?arch=x86_64&package=plasmoid-smooth-tasks&project=home%3Asumski%3AKDE%3AUnstable%3APlayground&repository=openSUSE_12.1
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sumski
9 years ago
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kitterma
9 years ago
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Oyster69
9 years ago
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superamer
7 years ago
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Smooth+Tasks+2?content=148813
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HugoPereira
9 years ago
See screenshot at:
http://i.imgur.com/B8RpI.png
To "fix" this, simply add:
setProperty( "_KDE_NET_WM_SKIP_SHADOW", true );
in TooltipWidget's constructor.
(... I know: there is no documentation for this)
Cheers,
Hugo
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koko2k
9 years ago
removing smooth tasks or just set fps to (1) and effect turation to 1ms workarounds the issue,
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floopy1962
9 years ago
Thank you :)
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Flupp
9 years ago
http://bitbucket.org/flupp/smooth-tasks-fork
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floopy1962
9 years ago
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franksouza183
9 years ago
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Naraku
9 years ago
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franksouza183
9 years ago
[frank@frankdora build]$ make -j 2
[ 0%] Built target plasma_applet_smooth-tasks_automoc
[ 0%] Built target translations
[ 3%] [ 6%] Building CXX object applet/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_smooth-tasks.dir/SmoothTasks/Applet.o
Building CXX object applet/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_smooth-tasks.dir/SmoothTasks/Task.o
/home/frank/Downloads/panzi-smooth-tasks-tip/applet/SmoothTasks/Task.cpp: In constructor ‘SmoothTasks::Task::Task(TaskManager::AbstractGroupableItem*, QObject*)’:
/home/frank/Downloads/panzi-smooth-tasks-tip/applet/SmoothTasks/Task.cpp:48:32: warning: ‘virtual bool TaskManager::AbstractGroupableItem::isGroupItem() const’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/kde4/taskmanager/abstractgroupableitem.h:90) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
/home/frank/Downloads/panzi-smooth-tasks-tip/applet/SmoothTasks/Applet.cpp: In member function ‘void SmoothTasks::Applet::launcherAdded(TaskManager::LauncherItem*)’:
/home/frank/Downloads/panzi-smooth-tasks-tip/applet/SmoothTasks/Applet.cpp:266:42: error: ‘class TaskManager::LauncherItem’ has no member named ‘url’
make[2]: ** [applet/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_smooth-tasks.dir/SmoothTasks/Applet.o] Erro 1
make[2]: *** Esperando que os outros processos terminem....
make[1]: ** [applet/CMakeFiles/plasma_applet_smooth-tasks.dir/all] Erro 2
make: ** [all] Erro 2
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franksouza183
9 years ago
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gulp21
9 years ago
That's the only thing I really miss while using SmoothTasks (which is a great plasmoid, btw).
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