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Bug 480784 - Add "close all windows of this application" context menu entry of window-buttons
Add "close all windows of this application" context menu entry of window-buttons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: window list
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-26 23:37 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description antistress 2007-09-26 23:37:14 UTC
The new possibility to rearrange buttons in the the window-list of the panel, like tabs in Firefox, is really nice : thank you for that :-)

Maybe we could also have an option to close all windows generated by a same application in one click ?

I'll try to explain my feature erquest through two observations :
1. With nautilus, when lots of windows are opened, you can close all of them by doing ctrl+shift+W. why not with the mouse ? And why only with Nautilus ?
2. In Firefox, when there are lots of tabs opened, you have the possibilty to "close all other tabs" from the tab context menu. 
Now imagine that i don't want tabs since they introduce a concurrent system of windows-buttons in the panel which can be confusing for the user. Therefore i prefer opening new links in new windows and manage windows opened by Firefox (or any other navigator) through the window-list applet of the panel. That way, i can take advantage of all the new functionnalities brought by modern windows managers (i.e. Compiz Fusion) like selecting graphically a window (thanks to Exposé-like stuff - named "Scale" in Compiz Fusion) which is much more convenient than the "old" tabs system. Then i'll get quickly lots of windows (like i used to get lots of tabs with the "old" system) and i would appreciate to be able to close all of them in one click, for instance by selecting the appropriate entry in a window-button context menu, like i used in Firefox.



Other information:
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-11-13 10:20:06 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 354892 ***
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2007-11-13 10:20:35 UTC
Sorry, wrong bug.
Comment 3 antistress 2007-11-13 10:52:32 UTC
indeed, they seem different
Comment 4 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:13:55 UTC
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
old feature requests in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you still use gnome-panel and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be implemented.