Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed "minimize to tray" ?

[Jake Tolbert <crazybilly@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 14:08 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
> Is there a reason why DockbarX is not suitable for this? I've attached
> a screenshot incase people dunno what I'm talking about :)

That is what you would get if you removed the ... from the bar when they
get resized.

I never understood why there was a ... when no text could fit.

Martin,

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Fwiw, this has always been one of my biggest frustrations w/ KDE--taskbar items get shrunk quickly so the majority of the space for the program/document name is taken up with ellipsis. Of course, if items are shrunk, it's because you have a lot of them, which means more and more ellipsis and less and less actual text.

I don't mean this a bash on KDE (for all I know this has changed dramatically in 4.4--I haven't tried it in a while). I'm just simply pointing out that ellipsis in the taskbar communicate very little information. They provide a lot of noise and very little real information.

--
Peaces,

Jake