Drawbox width of the Tasklist widget not adjusted depending of icons number + icons not centered

The issue:

qtile --version :0.22.1

I wanted to get a tasklist widget with only centered icons and with a widget drawbox adjusted to the number of icon. Instead:

• The icons are placed on the left hand side
• using a non transparent color for the background we can see that the widget is taking more space than necessary. This prevents the use of RectDecoration (at least to get good cosmetic results).

Ideally the width of the drawbox would be dynamically adjusted depending on the number of icons.

Removal of text was obtained with

def txt_remove(text): 
    text = ""
    return text

and in tasklist.widget parse_text=txt_remove,

Required:

• I have searched past issues to see if this bug has already been reported.

[elParaguayo]

I’ll add to my list.

[ervinpopescu]

I remember this rice that had a custom task list doing the job, if that helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/wb2r57/final_rice_on_qtile/

Qtile dots: https://github.com/ervinpopescu/dots-Lenovo/tree/main/.config/qtile

Hi, I’m the chef who made that rice 😃

As you can see from the dots, the tasklist has a transparent background, the issue you are pointing out bugged me too. I tried to make something like a thumbnail for windows in the tasklist and came across this, tried fixing it by playing with the calculate_length method and the __init__, but that didn’t work, so I eventually gave up, and then gave up on the thumbnail thing too, but not because of this issue.

So yeah, @elParaguayo is completely correct, but it would be nice if we had a way of not hardcoding the widget’s length 😃