[Feature request] Option in quicklaunch plugin to hide open applications

[stefonarch]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The combination of quicklaunch and beside the taskbar would be a cheap version of a dock and easily achievable IMO. We can already hide some apps in the taskbar, it would be similar but automatic.

The other way round would be an option in taskbar button menu: keep app visible when closed.
Describe the solution you'd like

If this option is checked opening any application would hide its launcher, leaving only one icon visible.

Context

Similar requests show up quite often.

[tsujan]

and easily achievable

I really doubt that. And so, it needs motivation ;) So far, no LXQt dev has been motivated enough.

As for me, I don't see any practical benefit to it. The fact that other panels may do it has not been a good reason for me (in other discussions).

Similar requests show up quite often.

I'm almost sure that there's already an open report about it somewhere. A duplicate?

[tsujan]

BTW, your description isn't clear. Do you want the quicklaunch item to disappear when the app is launched? Or its task-button to disappear? Or…?

The first case isn't practical. For an example, check the right-click menus of Firefox and FeatherPad. But besides that, the user may want to launch more than once instance.

The same is true for the second case, for obvious reasons. A third case?

The open report I was talking about was about "pinning" task-bar buttons and making them like launchers.

[stefonarch]

BTW, your description isn't clear. Do you want the quicklaunch item to disappear when the app is launched?

The first. Or the pinning in the taskbar. I remember vaguely @gfgit talking about a now possible merge of the 2 plugins.

The open report I was talking about was about "pinning" task-bar buttons and making them like launchers.

I didn't find it... only one about a dock. Anyway, as this feature is present in Windows, KDE, Cinnamon and whatever other DE too many users which try LXQt are missing it.

I know about the menu when more options are present, this would be missed here -unless we add it do the taskbar window buttons menu.

[tsujan]

Or the pinning in the taskbar.

Let's suppose we want to add codes for it. What should happen when a "pinned" task button is left clicked while its corresponding app is already launched? Should it behave like a task button or launcher?

In the first case, how can the user launch another instance or access the probable launch options? In the second case, how can the user access the task jobs?

If the answer to both is make a context-menu that contains both launch and task jobs, I'm afraid it'll be too cluttered.

[stefonarch]

If the answer to both is make a context-menu that contains both launch and task jobs, I'm afraid it'll be too cluttered.

I agree. Maybe a stripped-down version of the taskbar plugin with icons only, no workspace, monitor, level and shade items but the desktop launch options in a submenu.
So maximize, minimize, close and launch only.

[tsujan]

But why should we make a crippled version of another plugin?! Just to imitate a dock?