Re: desktop differentiated icons

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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> On Thursday 21 January 2010 16:33:37 Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> On 01/20/2010 09:34 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>>>> I often have a lot of open windows,
>>>>> mostly xterms and gvims.
>>>>> When I have seventeen of them in the bottom bar,
>>>>> it would be nice if they were color-coded or something by desktop.
>>>>> Is there a way to do that?
>>>>> I can color-code the desktop backgrounds themselves.
>>>>> I'm running KDE and FC11.
>>>>
>>>> Does the lack of response mean that no one knows how?
>>>
>>> Under Gnome with multiple desktops, the taskbar icons for open terminals
>>> show up only when I select the desktop containing the terminals.
>>
>> Alas, KDE is not so discriminating.
>> I get them all.
>>
>> Step forward KDE fans.
>> Do I need to go to Gnome for this?
>
> You are asking for two different things, apparently.
>
> If you want the taskbar entries to be color-coded by desktop, then no, I don't
> know how to do it, and I believe such functionality does not exist yet in KDE
> Task Manager. File a RFE.

More precisely, I want one, but am settling for the other.

> However, if you want the taskbar to have entries only for the windows on the
> current desktop, it's easy --- right-click on the taskbar, select "Task
> Manager Settings", and check the "Only show tasks from the current desktop"
> checkbox in the "Filters" section on the "General" tab.
>
> Or else be more precise about what you want. ;-)
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko

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