Feature Request: Add Multi Group icon

tjackenpacken / taskbar-groups

Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups

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Feature Request: Add Multi Group icon #116

Open hsayed21 opened 3 years ago

hsayed21 commented 3 years ago

Hi There,

Add an image icon that includes all the selected programs. The program is great, but if an image icon was added to the group that includes all the selected programs, it would be more than wonderful. And it appears for the user, which programs are in the group before it is pressed and discovered, so it is easy for it

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

For example, an icon can generate based on all the icons of the selected programs?

hsayed21 commented 3 years ago

yes, that

hsayed21 commented 3 years ago

like this alt text

neoOpus commented 3 years ago

please make this optional not by default!

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

Definitely, perhaps based on if there is any existing icons selected by the user.

JohnLGalt commented 3 years ago

I used BINS a lot back in the day, but it can't work with UWP apps at all. So, I'm exploring other options, and am trying TbG here to see if I can get something better.

I would like the option like in the screenshot above (which I'm betting is from BINS website), but would also like to make it optional as well - I found a nifty .PNG for browsers, for example, that I'd rather use than the 4 browsers' icons that I'm using for my group.

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

Feature implemented in #71 Currently, it grabs the first four applications and turns them into an icon Due to icon size restrictions, this is a bit small in the taskbar. Will add a way to remove current group icon to regenerate it as user's please.

Any other suggestions, please add them here.

Wolverine1977 commented 3 years ago

Is this part of v0.2.0.0 ? or implemented to an upcoming release?

hsayed21 commented 3 years ago

Feature implemented in #71 Currently, it grabs the first four applications and turns them into an icon Due to icon size restrictions, this is a bit small in the taskbar. Will add a way to remove current group icon to regenerate it as user's please.

Any other suggestions, please add them here.

Awesome thank you ❤💙 @PikeNote

I will wait to add a way to remove the current group icon to regenerate it as user's please.

Wolverine1977 commented 3 years ago

How do you activate this feature? I just set up Taskbar Groups and I'm not getting or seeing it as an option. Thanks :)

hsayed21 commented 3 years ago

I think it will be implemented in an upcoming release

Wolverine1977 commented 3 years ago

I loved Bins, this is close and showing a lot of promise. Is there a beta I can sign up for, I love testing new features!

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

Wish I had the knowledge or experience to implement half the magic of what Bins does. But I may consider releasing just beta builds of latest release somewhere.

JohnLGalt commented 3 years ago

You can do Betas right here in GitHub, I follow plenty of devs who do beta and final releases simultaneously.

As for Bins - yeah, it was a treat to use. I worked with the dev for a while ascertaining it's worthiness in Windows 10, but after a while it started having too many issues.

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

I would release beta builds, but I don't have direct repo access or release access in this GitHub. I can't release beta builds alone. I do believe the repo owner would want to review changes, but they are a bit busy at the moment.

JohnLGalt commented 3 years ago

Whoops - I didn't even notice that you were not the repo owner - my bad.

Maybe a pull request and release Betas in a new repo?

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/PikeNote/taskbar-groups-pike-beta/releases/tag/v0.2.1.0

New "beta" release with the changes in pull #71. It is all 1 exe now. Please read the notice I put in there before you install for all the disclaimers and instructions/heads up.