GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 59692
Make task grouping more intelligent
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:10:59 UTC
Usually, I prefer to enable Task Grouping, however, I do find it annoying when I have to toggle between, e.g. the same two Terminal or Mozilla windows frequently. (Makes me wish for that MacOS X "Windows" menu.) The method used by Windows XP is actually rational here. When the task list runs out of free space, it groups the LRU (least-recently-used) program(s). An extension of this might be to group only the LRU windows from a given program. For example, if I am only using 2 Terminal windows out of 5 open, I would like to see something like: [ # Terminal 3 ] [ # Terminal 2 ] [ # Terminal 1 ] ^ [ # ] [ # Terminal 4 ] [ # Terminal 5 ] I.E. just the icon (#) on a "tiny" button, grouping under it the LRU windows of this (class | source program), with other windows still "visible" either because they are MRU windows on the system, or the MRU windows for that class | program and there is enough space left on the taskbar to accomodate.
Also there is another another anoting problem: The takslist items appears shadowed when the application window is selected. When grouping is set, the group becames shadowed, but when you show the components of the group, all appear unshadowed. The corresponding item in the group should be shadowed. So it's easier to recognice which window is currently selected and the others options.
See also #60279, which is not quite a duplicate.
This is sort of planned. But I never got time to finish it.
Alex if you plan to work on this for 2.2 (in the next couple months) feel free to move to 2.x milestone.
*** Bug 114989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
I'd by now consider this a dublicate of bug 325439, because in that bug, we actually propose a patch, that tries to fix which applications are being grouped. There's also work to be done about the question _when_ groups are being created. This is discussed in Bug 155904 and I've already put down some thoughts about. I can't mark this as dup myself, so if anybody agrees with me, who has the permission of doing so, please go ahead.
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