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Bug 133496 - Window icons get reshuffeled abruptly
Window icons get reshuffeled abruptly
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: tasklist
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 163774 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 155904
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-05 12:29 UTC by Sarfraaz Ahmed
Modified: 2007-06-29 19:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sarfraaz Ahmed 2004-02-05 12:29:11 UTC 
I have these setting for my window list ..

1. Show windows from all workspaces
2. Always group windows
3. Restore to native workspace

Now open up a number of appplication windows, including multiple windows of
the same application. Ex : open up 2 epiphany windows.

Now, if i close one of these epiphany windows, the icons get re-shuffeled
and the solitary epiphany window is moved to some other location in the
window list. This is very confusing, since i need to again search for the
window on the window-list.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2004-02-05 14:55:07 UTC 
I suppose this happens because we the grouped windows are shown before
non-grouped windows.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2005-01-12 16:27:13 UTC 
*** Bug 163774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2005-01-12 16:33:06 UTC 
See the second half of
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-October/msg00383.html.
Comment 4 Vincent Noel 2005-01-28 14:51:54 UTC 
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
Comment 5 John Kawakami 2005-10-01 18:12:46 UTC 
I didn't know that grouped windows were to the left of ungrouped windows. 
That's pretty subtle behavior.

Can the lists and sublists be sorted alphabetically, so the likely location of
common icons is predictable?
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2007-06-29 19:53:41 UTC 
Hrm, in fact, the "reshuffle" bug was just because we didn't use a stable sort order. We're doing this now.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can the lists and sublists be sorted alphabetically, so the likely location of
> common icons is predictable?

See bug 452350.