GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 72335
Window List applet takes up all panel space to the right of it
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:31 UTC
When right clicking A windowlist applet (say, when rightclicking one window's name in the applet), there should be specific-to-this-applet options. the thing is that when you click AFTER the windowlist applet (to the direction of right..), on the PANEL and not on any applet, you still get the specific-to-the-windowlist-applet-menu, instead of the panel menu with all the 'add applet' options. How to reproduce: create a new edge panel (didn't test it with others..), add the windowlist applet in the middle of the panel. right click on the left side of the panel: work well. now click on the right side of the panel: you cannot get the panel's menu.
It is really annoying, that tasklist applet expands to the end of panel. t should use just as much space, as is needed at the moment
*** Bug 72884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Re-titling slightly with the better description from the other bug. This is very borderline on being High.
*** Bug 72796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 74192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hrm. Could have sworn I'd tagged this earlier. And marking high because of the number of dups.
one possible solution to this could be to maintain the current behavior but let the user choose to righ or left justify.
After playing with this for a while in my latest ximian snapshot, i'm starting to feel that this might not be a bug and is actually the correct design.
Well perhaps, but as i mentioned in bug 74192, the context menu is confusing
To make things more confusing,the subject really should read "Window List applet takes up /nearly/ all panel space to the right of it": At least in cvs head you do get the panel menu when you slam the mouse all to the right of the lower panel and then rightclick. (I use a panel setup more or less like default, so window list is on bottom panel with no other stuff added to the right of it. The right-click-to-panel-menu-area is not visually distinguishable but it's there nevertheless ---------------------------------------------------- | workspace switcher| window list applet | ---------------------------------------------------- ^ rightclick here
Heres and idea, maybe we can add an option to the right click menu, "set applet width" that pops up and visible box around the applet which the user can stretch to the desired width.
This is rather annoying for me as I use a pixmap background so I can fake a transparent panel (actually it fades in). I like the set width idea...
Well ideally the window list applet would inherit the panels background and your pixmap problem would be solved, regardless of this bug.
*** Bug 77749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding bugbuddy tag
Fixed in CVS by alex the hero :-)