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Bug 313730 - Selecting multiple windows and performing actions on them
Selecting multiple windows and performing actions on them
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117249
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: tasklist
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-17 15:12 UTC by Sven J.
Modified: 2005-08-30 00:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Sven J. 2005-08-17 15:12:28 UTC 
Hi there,

example, if you have 8 windows open and want to close 5 of them. How are you
going to do this with the windowlist-applet? You click every "window-button" and
use the context menu "close".

what if you could press "ctrl", and firstly select all the "window-button", and
then use one right-click on one of them to get the context-menu - and all of
them get closed.

If i now hold "ctrl" and click one of the window-list items, its not different
to clicking them and not holding "ctrl". So this combination is still free.

Other information:
Comment 1 Sergej Kotliar 2005-08-18 12:03:14 UTC 
First of all, if I understood you correctly, you want to be able to select
multiple windows using CTRL and applying an action to all of them. 

As a tip: to close many windows at once, you can open them up (click them in
order), and then use CTRL-W for X times, where X is the number of windows you
want to close.

I'm afraid such a feature would be difficult to implement, and I'm not sure what
the HIG would way about it, but I'll mark it as an enhancement for now, and
await comments from the gnome-panel developers. Also changing the title to
reflect that it is the selection and multi-window actions you are after, not
just closing.
Comment 2 Rodney Dawes 2005-08-30 00:41:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117249 ***