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Change taskbar to enable different workloads (home, designer, web dev, app dev, ...) #6737

Open ohyearsonist opened 4 years ago

ohyearsonist commented 4 years ago

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I use the taskbar a lot. I would like to see if you guys could implement a feature on powertoys that let you have diferent taskbars and navigate between them. Example: I could have a taskbar for my design apps, other for my productivity apps, other for my programming apps, other for my entertainment apps, etc, etc, etc...

I think it could have a dropdown menu in the taskbar that you can create, manage and navigate between the taskbars. Thank you a lot for reading this post!

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ohyearsonist commented 4 years ago

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Jay-o-Way commented 4 years ago

Can you tell us a bit more on when you would use this or how you think it should look? Like, is this more about accessing them with icons or separating open windows? Two ideas I have are:

  1. You can create (a) custom toolbar(s). Just create a folder - anywhere on your drive, put some shortcut in it, then right-click the taskbar, Create new toolbar.
  2. For open windows, you can create virtual desktops with Win+Tab.
ohyearsonist commented 4 years ago

Hi Jay.

My idea is that the function worked on accessing them with icons, but even with this trick with the folder, it doesn't work so well. Some programs (like Inkscape, Trello, Todoist, etc) don't let you access the shortcut, or the program files (or you can't find it).

My idea was to use an icon like the battery indicator so that you could alternate between different taskbars with different icons on them, with a nice dropdown list like the wi-fi one so that you can see all the taskbars and manage them.

About how I would use it, I would organize my icons, for example: In my taskbar, I have all my navigators together (I have to shift between them to access different functionalities or accounts), and after that, I have all my design apps, And after I have al the programming related apps, and my productivity-related apps, etc...

Unfortunately, I cannot separate them by any means and it ends up being a bit unorganized.

If I could separate them in different taskbars like a design bar to focus on my web design, a front-end programming taskbar with Figma, The terminal, etc so I can focus on front-end, etc.

The big feature of it is that you could add to the taskbar just like you would make it normally, but you would choose in which taskbar you would fix it.

Thank you for considering my purpose, and have a great time.

Until next time,

Rafael Alves de Lima Monteiro