GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 619270
"group windows when space is limited" isn't configurable
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:21:00 UTC
I originally reported this as an Ubuntu bug and was asked to report it upstream. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/583418 In the Window List preferences, I set Window Grouping to "group windows when space is limited". The grouping only kicks in when the buttons become very small. The threshold appears to be 80 pixels (libwnck-2.30.0/libwnck/tasklist.c line 94, #define DEFAULT_GROUPING_LIMIT 80). It would be useful to be able to change the threshold from the preferences interface. Or alternatively, have the grouping kick in when (say) half the window titles in the window list buttons have been truncated with "...". What I expected to happen: windows would be grouped when their buttons became so narrow that the titles were truncated. What happened instead: window grouping did not occur even with lots of xterms open (about 15) at which point all the titles are truncated to "username@..." and the hostname and path aren't visible, so the windows aren't distinguishable from the window list bar. This is on Ubuntu Lucid/10.04 with all updates as of today (20 May 2010). The gnome-panel and libwnck22 packages are both at version 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
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