It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.
I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.
And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:
For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.
In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃
I knew Activities were going to be involved. I freaking love Activities, it makes multitasking work so well. It’s a highly under-valued and ignored feature that I think more people would use if they knew about it.
It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.
I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.
And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:
For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.
In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃
I knew Activities were going to be involved. I freaking love Activities, it makes multitasking work so well. It’s a highly under-valued and ignored feature that I think more people would use if they knew about it.
Thanks for the effort you put into the reply!
Well, that’s amazing. I’m going to rethink my layout philosophy.