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Bug 171793 - window list shows current desktop windows in alternate color or the like
window list shows current desktop windows in alternate color or the like
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 342696
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: tasklist
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 319336 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-27 13:42 UTC by Seph M. Soliman
Modified: 2006-05-23 15:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description Seph M. Soliman 2005-03-27 13:42:59 UTC 
The window lists can be toggled to show windows from all desktops or only from
the current.
It would be a nice usability feature if it would be visually visible which
windows are available on the current desktop and which are located at others
(when "Show windows from all desktops" is checked).
I suggest those window-buttons of other desktops could be dimmed or the text was
dimmed.

Other information:
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2005-03-27 22:26:55 UTC 
Dimming would be confusing since that's what we use for minimized windows.  We'd
need a different method.
Comment 2 Seph M. Soliman 2005-03-29 14:31:59 UTC 
Dimming the icon color is used. Dimming the entire button/colouring it
differently isn't used.

Another way is to sort the windows based on the desktop they appear on in
combination with some other visual indication.
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2005-03-29 16:18:43 UTC 
Dimming the entire button or coloring it differently I believe would suffer from
the same theme problems as button flashing (see bug 150594).

The window selector applet sorts windows according to the desktop they are on. 
It's possible we could do something similar for the tasklist.  

Or, we could massively simplify libwnck and get rid of nasty edge cases by
nuking the ability to show windows from all desktops in the tasklist since the
selector handles it (and maybe we could nuke the nasty grouping stuff at the
same time)...  </rant>
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2006-02-18 10:30:50 UTC 
*** Bug 319336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2006-02-18 10:31:19 UTC 
Ideas from bug 319336:

Windows from other workspaces should be visualized differently than windows in
current workspace in "Show all windows" mode:

- Windows from other workspaces should be rendered differently - with different
background or font color (or with font in italic) and/or flashed-out icon.

- Tooltip should also show name of workspace (or even flash the window in
workspace switcher applet).

- Maybe also smaller maximal width can be used sometimes.
Comment 6 Elijah Newren 2006-05-23 15:14:15 UTC 
I think we should sort windows in the tasklist by workspace, with nice big bars inbetween to make the windows on various workspaces visually distinct.  I was almost certain we had an older bug already filed for that, but I only see one that was just recently filed.  Anyway I'm going to mark as a duplicate of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 342696 ***