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Bug 346308 - Window Selector gets hard to use with lots of windows open
Window Selector gets hard to use with lots of windows open
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: selector
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-30 18:04 UTC by Tony Howard
Modified: 2018-01-24 13:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Tony Howard 2006-06-30 18:04:17 UTC 
Window Selector should have an option to group windows, similar to the Window List applet.  Once this is enabled, if an app has multiple windows, the app would appear once in the list.  Moving over the app would draw a menu to the left with each of the app's windows.

Other information:
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2007-06-10 15:00:18 UTC 
I wonder if the new feature in 2.19 that makes the selector sort windows by workspace help with this. I think it does really mitigate this bug.

(And I'm not a fan of grouping windows in the selector, to be honest, so if we can avoid it, that's better for me :-))
Comment 2 Paul Rawson 2009-11-14 00:02:03 UTC 
It looks like this is implemented in 2.26
Comment 3 A.Pirard 2010-09-07 19:59:26 UTC 
The goal is having no or less need to scroll the list to reach "out of screen".

It would help if the current workspace were the bottom one in Window Selector.
The best order within the workspace is most recently used below.
(All that assuming it happens on the bottom panel)

What is implemented in 2.26?
Would that be optional and need a preference dialog?
Comment 4 A.Pirard 2010-10-16 19:35:10 UTC 
I think that, the goal being to access mostly recently used windows,
the *default* order should be :
- current desktop exterior (at the bottom for a bottom panel)
- LRU windows exterior (windows in stack position order)
Lazy default making an even better reputation of Window Selector.

It might also not group windows, but open a list of all the windows opened by the program the mouse lingers on.

See 339547 -300631 - 346308 - 408288 - ...
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 13:33:21 UTC 
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