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Bug 60279 - Don't group while tasklist still has space remaining
Don't group while tasklist still has space remaining
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: tasklist
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 79546 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 155904
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-10 01:46 UTC by Pat Rondon
Modified: 2007-06-29 19:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Pat Rondon 2001-09-10 01:46:09 UTC 
I'd like to see grouping only occur if there are a specified number of
programs running, in addition to the number of instances. There's no sense
in grouping all five instances of Mozilla if it's the only thing running,
because then it's much harder to get to each instance.
Comment 1 Martin Pool 2002-02-04 06:24:37 UTC 
See also #59692, which is related but not quite a duplicate.
Comment 2 Martin Pool 2002-02-04 06:26:56 UTC 
I think the main issue here is that it's slightly silly to start
grouping tasks until all the space allocated to the taskbar has been
used up.  I suppose that's somewhat complicated by the fact that some
taskbars can grow unboundedly, which might not be the most desired
behaviour.

You can also imagine a "group these windows" option on the popup, but
moving to the LRU mechanism of #59692 is probably best.
Comment 3 Kjartan Maraas 2002-08-13 16:30:24 UTC 
Moving to gnome-panel for comments.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-16 20:36:56 UTC 
I think this may just be a bug; I'm not sure it's supposed to 
group if it has enough space.
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-16 21:09:51 UTC 
*** Bug 79546 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Alexander Larsson 2002-09-17 07:04:00 UTC 
Yeah. It shouldn't start grouping until not grouping would make the
buttons under some threshold in width (by default at least).
Comment 7 Vincent Noel 2005-01-28 14:34:47 UTC 
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2006-01-22 22:22:19 UTC 
Removing GNOME2.x target milestone for these bugs since this milestone hardly makes sense now.
Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2007-06-29 19:23:20 UTC 
Hrm, this perfectly works now. Since a long time.