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Bug 310084 - libwnck shouldn't be using ASCII art to display window status
libwnck shouldn't be using ASCII art to display window status
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91655
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-12 04:33 UTC by Nicholas Miell
Modified: 2005-07-12 13:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Remove ASCII art (1.35 KB, patch)
2005-07-12 04:34 UTC, Nicholas Miell 		none Details | Review

Description Nicholas Miell 2005-07-12 04:33:31 UTC 
The use of [Name] and =Name= to display minimized and shaded windows is both
ugly and non-obvious.

Shaded icons are more than adequate to indicate that the window isn't currently
visible.
Comment 1 Nicholas Miell 2005-07-12 04:34:10 UTC 
Created attachment 48998 [details] [review]
Remove ASCII art
Comment 2 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-07-12 09:28:02 UTC 
Confirming because this annoys me too.
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2005-07-12 13:47:41 UTC 
Another vote for no brackets; same as bug 155876 which is yet another
dup/extension of bug 91655...

I think I'm in favor of this proposal (especially since the trailing bracket is
often cut off by the ellipsizing), but if we change behavior in libwnck then we
also need to change Metacity at the same time (the alt-tab popup uses the same
methods as libwnck for displaying windows).  If you can convince Havoc to take
the change in Metacity, and the usability people don't object, I think this
patch would be fine.

I'm going to mark as a duplicate but make note of the patch...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91655 ***