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Bug 72783 - The Window List in the menu panel should be an applet
The Window List in the menu panel should be an applet
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 95322 99432 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 73072
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-27 05:37 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-02-27 05:37:47 UTC 
Window list applet should be configurable to act like the window list
applet in the menu panel. This should be done, so that by gnome 2.2, the
menu panel can be removed a replaced with a standard panel, with the
menubar, clock and window list applets.
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2002-04-10 11:26:40 UTC 
Yes, but it would probably be a seperate applet
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-04-10 12:54:49 UTC 
however you decide to do it is fine with me
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-09-09 22:30:59 UTC 
Hey mark now that i think of it, i'm not really convinced that this
type of applet is something that the panel needs to provide. I filed
this bug mainly as a feature to feature comparison between the
menupanel and an edge panel +menubar applet. I would guess that for
generally usability the tasklist on the bottom of the screen is
preferable (its definately more featureful). Anyway your call just
thought i'd bring this up.
Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2002-09-11 01:41:01 UTC 
Sure - that may be the case. I know that some people do use this
though and I don't know i we want to remove many features in 2.2 ..
Comment 5 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-10-12 02:41:14 UTC 
*** Bug 95322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Stephane Chauveau 2002-10-19 09:05:21 UTC 
Provide 2 applets then. One would be the old "Window List"
and the new one "Windows Menu".

Btw, the tasklist is nice if you only have a few windows. 
If you have more than 10 windows then a menu is a lot 
better.
Comment 7 Calum Benson 2002-10-21 18:37:39 UTC 
I think my main gripe with the menu thing (as I said in some other bug
report) is that it seems to have been an attempt to copy the Macintosh
Finder menu, but without copying the bits that actually made the
Finder menu quite useful :)  E.g. its ability to show notification of
minimized apps that have posted message boxes etc.
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2002-12-15 19:07:03 UTC 
*** Bug 99432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Mark McLoughlin 2003-01-12 04:33:54 UTC 
This has been done on HEAD. I've called it the "Window Menu".

New bugs should be filed suggesting improvements to the applet rather
than re-opening this one ..