GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164590
Windows that DEMANDS_ATTENTION should appear in bold in the task switcher
Last modified: 2005-01-20 16:41:43 UTC
Right now, windows that demand attention (eg a window that has opened in the background) have their label appear in bold in the window selector and window list applets. It would be nice if the same was done in the alt-tab task switcher popup.
It would also be nice if we could do something better than bold. In particular, Firefox uses bold to denote the currently active tab, which makes our use of bold *really* confusing. However, for the window list that's blocking on a gtk_widget_flash() or some similar API, so for gnome-2.10 I agree that we should do this for now.
Created attachment 36248 [details] [review] patch to implement the feature Yeah, I agree that bold is not optimal. I remember a version of gaim where windows with new messages were flashing their button (selected/normal) in the window list applet, that worked wonders. It was a lot more noticeable than bold. Still, bold is better than nothing at this point I guess, if only for consistency with the applets...
Yea I kinda wanted to do flashing also, but I implemented the bold following a discussion with a bunch of gtk hackers that basically boiled down to "there's no way to make the window list flash like that" because of different theme engines.
Yeah, I even went and filed bug 150594 about making it possible to flash a button and make it work for all theme engines; Owen commented and went so far as to say that he didn't even think it would be useful (despite the cases we gave for which we wanted to use it). :-(
In the meantime, what do you think about the patch ? :-)
Looks sane to me, but I can't approve or reject patches, so I didn't comment. I'll make all the relevant triaging changes, though. (Someone kick me if I'm not supposed to set the target milestone like this...)
Comment on attachment 36248 [details] [review] patch to implement the feature Looks fine to me.
Committed. Thanks.