Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Jan 2007 18:39 UTC, submitted by ronaldst
Have you ever had your taskbar filled with 10 applications all doing something that involved waiting for a task to finish? Document Printing Progress, a K3b CD burning dialogue, Audio Encoding via KAudioCreator, File Transfers in Konqueror, Kopete, KTorrent, checking email in KMail... The new Jobs support in KDE 4 will unify the display of progress for these tasks, making it easy to see and manage what is happening on your system. Read on for details.
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2005-07-07
What about the users tasks and jobs?
While this is currently applied to jobs the computer is processing for your, the general design is capable of representing any kind of job.
Basically this is what Rafael has worked on lately, i.e. taking the concept of "jobs" to a new abstraction level.