GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 37787
tasklist applet -- manual sorting
Last modified: 2007-01-28 01:50:22 UTC
Package: panel Severity: normal Version: 1.2.4 Synopsis: tasklist applet -- manual sorting Class: change-request Distribution: Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness) System: Linux 2.2.16-22 i686 unknown C library: glibc-2.2-9 C compiler: 2.96 glib: 1.2.8 GTK+: 1.2.8 ORBit: ORBit 0.5.6 gnome-libs: gnome-libs 1.2.8 libxml: 1.8.10 gnome-print: gnome-print-0.25-8_helix_1 gnome-core: gnome-core 1.2.4 Description: This is a feature which I would really like to see...I would like to be able to decide where in the tasklist a particular task button resides. in other words, if I had three applications open corresponding to three buttons in my tasklist, which may be ordered: button1, button2, button3, then I would like to be able to rearange these tasks (through some kind of mouse drag) so that, for example, the tasks appear in the new order: button3, button1, button2. That would be cool...eh? ------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 13:19 ------- This bug was previously known as bug 37787 at http://bugs.gnome.org/ http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37787 Originally filed under the gnome-core product and panel component. Unknown version 1.2.x in product gnome-core. Setting version to the default, "unspecified". The original reporter (kaplan@geop.ubc.ca) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
moving to gnome-panel
I think I'm mistakenly classifying most enhancements as "Low Priority." Sorry for this, and sorry for the spam.
*** Bug 97747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 121959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still a relevant bug; I'm updating the keywords. See also bug 128309 for another suggestion/experiment from the usability people for a possible way to order the apps in the tasklist ("by screen position")
Would it not be sensible to just list the windows in the order they are created? Thus any regularly used apps stay in the same place towards the start of the list and any transient ones live towards the end of the list. My current list is randomly ordered. This is really bad from a user's point of view as I have to hunt up and down the list each time a new window is created on the desktop.
*** Bug 143785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bill: yes, that's possible. See bug 52225.
*** Bug 160048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I believe this request was mostly due to the fact that many have found the ordering of the tasklist to be unintuitive/unrememberable/"random" (it actually wasn't random, but many thought it was). However, that should be fixed now with the patch in bug 52225 that was just applied. I believe that should be better than doing what is requested here (some may argue that point, but I don't believe the code complexity for this feature would be worth the benefit). I'm going to go ahead and mark as WONTFIX. Someone can LART me and reopen if they think I shouldn't do that...
*** Bug 326398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 384827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"I believe this request was mostly due to the fact that many have found the ordering of the tasklist to be unintuitive/unrememberable/"random" Well, I just opened a similar bug today (12/11/2006) and it had nothing to do with the ordering of the tasklist. I just consider that functionality would be desirable. Tabs can be reordered, why shouldn't tasks? "I don't believe the code complexity for this feature would be worth the benefit). I'm going to go ahead and mark as WONTFIX". I can't discuss it, since I don't know how complex it would be to code the feature. Would it really be that hard?
A patch exists for this at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302398