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Bug 153106 - Insufficient distinction between "Window List" and "Window Selector" in "Add to Panel" dialog
Insufficient distinction between "Window List" and "Window Selector" in "Add ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: window list
git master
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 156709 169238 169514 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-19 20:52 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar (5.57 KB, patch)
2005-05-09 07:46 UTC, krishna 		needs-work Details | Review
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar (99.59 KB, patch)
2005-05-09 07:48 UTC, krishna 		needs-work Details | Review
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar (5.57 KB, patch)
2005-05-09 07:49 UTC, krishna 		needs-work Details | Review
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar (5.56 KB, patch)
2005-05-09 07:49 UTC, krishna 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2004-09-19 20:52:55 UTC 
The window list and window selector applets have similar names and identical
description in the "Add to Panel" dialog box.

Window List - Switch between open windows.
Window Selector - Switch between open windows.

Left to guess based on name alone, I'd come to the incorrect conclusion (ie: I
would expect that the 'list' was the pulldown list and the 'selector' was the
taskbar-type selector.)

Randomly filing against the Window List Applet subcomponent because I can't put
it under both.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2004-10-16 13:29:35 UTC 
Any suggestion?
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2004-10-29 10:18:54 UTC 
*** Bug 156709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2004-12-23 09:37:15 UTC 
Sorry for the spam. Confirming some bugs.
 Filter on "VINCENT CONFIRMS" to ignore.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2005-01-03 20:48:19 UTC 
Vidar: you always have nice ideas for bugs like this. Do you have an opinion here?
Comment 5 Vidar Braut Haarr 2005-01-03 23:21:06 UTC 
I think I'd go for either "Window Bar" or "Taskbar" (isn't that what Win use?)
for the list.

"Window Selector" is also a misleading name. It suggests "some way of selecting
a window", but gives no clue to the actual implementation (menu). What about
"Window Selection Menu" ?
Perhaps we should redesign the icon from showing a window overlaying another,
and into an actual menu ?

This has actually bothered me too ;) thanks, Vincent!
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2005-01-12 13:58:04 UTC 
Sorry for the spam. Mass-marking some bugs to the 2.10.x milestone.
 Filter on "VINCENT WANTS THIS FOR 2.10" to ignore.
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2005-01-29 01:10:48 UTC 
Vidar: the bug was more about the description of the icons, that are really similar.
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2005-02-01 12:06:30 UTC 
For reference, we changed the name from window menu to window selector in bug
#108214.
Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2005-02-07 20:00:20 UTC 
String freeze. Punting to 2.12.
Comment 10 Vincent Untz 2005-03-04 21:11:04 UTC 
*** Bug 169238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Vincent Untz 2005-03-07 18:49:46 UTC 
*** Bug 169514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Vincent Untz 2005-03-07 18:50:34 UTC 
Proposition from Tim, in bug #169514:

Window List: Switch between open windows using a "task bar"
Window Selector: Switch between open windows using a pop-up menu

I'm not sure about the "task bar". Maybe "using buttons" would be better...
Comment 13 Tim Gerla 2005-03-07 18:52:39 UTC 
Vincent, sorry about the dup. I'm also not sure about "task bar". It's kind of
technical. I'd go for either more descriptive applet names as proposed above, or
"using a set of buttons".
Comment 14 krishna 2005-05-09 07:46:01 UTC 
Created attachment 46221 [details] [review]
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar
Comment 15 krishna 2005-05-09 07:48:34 UTC 
Created attachment 46222 [details] [review]
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar
Comment 16 krishna 2005-05-09 07:49:22 UTC 
Created attachment 46223 [details] [review]
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar
Comment 17 krishna 2005-05-09 07:49:47 UTC 
Created attachment 46224 [details] [review]
change the switch between open windows as switch between windows in a taskbar
Comment 18 krishna 2005-05-10 05:48:37 UTC 
anyone please see the attachment it is fixd the bug
Comment 19 Vincent Untz 2005-06-06 22:17:23 UTC 
krishna: your attachments are not patches. Please attach patches.
Comment 20 Vincent Untz 2005-06-06 22:23:13 UTC 
Fixed in HEAD.