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Bug 72628 - right click on application in window list applet doesn't give standard sawfish options
right click on application in window list applet doesn't give standard sawfis...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.x
Other Linux
: High major
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 73101 74527 74971 77209 77568 81234 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-26 05:29 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2005-11-15 02:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-02-26 05:29:27 UTC 
in gnome 1.4, when your right click on an application docked in the window
list applet, it gives you the option to kill the app along with other such
options as iconify, sticky etc.  In gnome2, right clicking anywhere on the
window list applet just give the panel options (remove etc.) this is a
regression from gnome1.4.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-02-28 20:39:58 UTC 
This is a fairly major regression from 1.4 functionality for this
applet. Any clue if it is going to be fixable?
Comment 2 Kevin Vandersloot 2002-02-28 23:20:09 UTC 
Tasklist is now called Window List and is part of gnome-panel. Moving
it there.
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2002-03-02 03:18:40 UTC 
*** Bug 73101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2002-03-18 20:38:28 UTC 
*** Bug 74971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2002-03-19 13:37:05 UTC 
Havoc, Alex: is a this planned feature ?

Putting it on the 2.0.x milestone for the moment
Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-19 14:04:54 UTC 
It's planned with some of caveats. Advice from UI team might be good.

 - the right-click menu currently operates on the whole applet,
   we can menu-merge these window options but then we have 
   a menu that operates on both the applet, and the tasks, 
   depending on which items you choose, and I think it's quite   
   confusing.

 - Adding a little resize grip thing you use to manipulate the 
   whole applet has some appeal to me for that reason.

 - the Kill choice specifically is bogus, I think
   If a process is stuck, disconnecting it from the 
   X server which is what Kill does is useless, and if it's not stuck 
   then plain Close works, and if it's stuck then we can use 
   _NET_WM_PING in the window manager to ask to kill the process 
   PID with the "kill" command - "this process is not responding do 
   you want to shut it down" kind of thing.
Comment 7 Luis Villa 2002-03-19 17:14:09 UTC 
Adding seth and nils since they might not see it otherwise for some time.
Comment 8 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-19 20:04:55 UTC 
I think at the least we should have close, minimize, and maximize in
the right click menu. This will be expected by users (especially
former windows users).
Comment 9 Seth Nickell 2002-03-19 23:14:08 UTC 
I'm personally in favour of a resize grip, I think Nils is not. My
feeling is that resize grips should be placed on any applet that does
not have static widgetry itself. It informs the user the applet is
there, and it gives them somewhere to click to get more widget settings.

I agree we should not have kill. Having Close, Maximize, and Minimize
seems useful.
Comment 10 Mark McLoughlin 2002-03-21 16:08:58 UTC 
*** Bug 74527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Mark McLoughlin 2002-03-22 10:47:58 UTC 
Hey, resize grip discussions should be in #73055

This bug is about right clicking on the windows in the taslkist
Comment 12 John Fleck 2002-03-23 03:34:46 UTC 
This change will require a significant addition to the docs. Adding
myself to cc list.
Comment 13 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-25 19:11:59 UTC 
We also will want to have a "restore" option in the right click menu 
that restores a maximized window to it's original size.
Comment 14 Mark McLoughlin 2002-03-27 14:04:18 UTC 
Havoc: this belongs in libwnck in any case - no?

And its an enhancement request there too ?
Comment 15 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-27 15:35:04 UTC 
Yes this is libwnck, I plan to do this.
Comment 16 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-31 19:13:53 UTC 
Adding an easy way to move applications to different desktops would be
nice to add to the right click menu as well. The old stick, unstick
method was messy and confusing though.
Comment 17 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-31 20:46:46 UTC 
A nice touch on Windows is that this right-click menu is exactly the
same as the menu you get from the top-right button on the window itself.
Comment 18 Mark McLoughlin 2002-04-02 18:12:20 UTC 
*** Bug 77209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19 Mark McLoughlin 2002-04-10 16:31:31 UTC 
*** Bug 77568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-04-16 18:47:23 UTC 
this is fixed in latest cvs, needs some usability love though.
Comment 21 Heath Harrelson 2002-05-09 14:17:44 UTC 
*** Bug 81234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***