Mageia 4 Icon-Only Task Manager problems

[rockhopper]

I've installed the new Mageia 4 yesterday, so far it's running good, but I have a few issues - which I did not have with Mageia 3. I'm not sure if it should go to the bug-report, or if it's me doing something wrong.

When adding the "Mageia Control Center"-icon from the menu to the "Icon-Only Task Manager" it will always display a new icon when opening the control center, instead of marking the main icon as opened (show a launcher when not running). If I add it via "show a launcher when not running" nothing happens when I klick it, no control-center opens.
When adding Google-Chrome from the menu to the taskbar it will also open a new icon when starting it from there. If added via "show a launcher when not running" it will open a dialog "Open With:" instead of starting the browser.

Both was working in the previous versions.
Something I'm doing wrong, or I could try?

Cheers! Bernhard.

[doktor5000]

You want to switch to the classic task manager. Easiest way is to add a new Mageia classic panel. Control panel settings -> add control panel -> Classic Mageia control panel.
Check the previous threads about this: viewtopic.php?p=40618#p40618

[rockhopper]

Thank you for this very quick response.
I'm sorry if my description was not clear enough. Icon-only is what I want, since introduced in Mandriva by Rosa, if I remember correctly.

Icon-Only was working as I expect in Mandriva and Mageia 2+3 but for some reason I have problems now with Mageia 4. I'm not sure if I missed some configuration setting (I always make fresh installations with new versions, no upgrades). As I think a bug like this would have been recognized before.

What I excpect (and had before):
Icons from konsole, system settings, control center, firefox, chrome, etc in my icon-only bar.
If I klick on one of this icons it's marked as startet application, whitout creating a second icon in the icon-only taskbar.

What I have now:
working like described above for all applications but not for chrome and control center,
this two will create a second icon when started (when added via the start menu to the task-bar)
or will not start at all (resp. open a "open with"-dialog) when added via "show a launcher when not running"


If I'm the only one experiencing this problem I must have missed a configuration somewhere.. but I can't find it.
Or is my installation broken and I should re-install all?


I appologize if my description is not very clear as English is not my main language ;(

edit: just found the german forum, I'm not used to have a community in other languages then English I'm going to post there, this will be easier for me, and the reader *g*

[rockhopper]

@mod/admin please close and remove this thread - I posted it in the German forum now also and I don't want to cross-post, cheers!

[doktor5000]

Well, threads are not removed, and not closed when there are no good reasons

Thread is continued in germam forum: https://forums.mageia.org/de/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1960

[jkerr82508]

FWIW, I see the same behaviour with google-chrome and MCC. I have a quicklaunch widget on my desktop, and so I've added these two applications to that. They both launch properly from the quicklaunch widget. (I did have a similar problem with google-chrome, but not MCC, in Mageia 3.)

Jim

[rockhopper]

Fyi, we figured out - with great support of Doktor5000 - that it's most probably a problem with the TaskManager itself, and no configuration issue.

Furthermore I figured out, using an older Chrome build 30.0.1599.114 will work on Mageia 4, while the v32s (32.0.1700.102 or 32.0.1599.114) won't.
Though, all versions do work with Mageia 3.