GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 77967
Window list applet grouping yelp windows into one tab even they are started separately.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Version - 1.0 Code is taken on 25th march. 1) Start window list applet. 2) Start Yelp two times(Bot should not have any parent-child relationship). 3) As a result there are two tabs in the panel, one for each yelp window opened in the current workspace. 4) Right click on the applet and select the option properties. 5) Enable the radio button 'Always group windows'. 6) As a result of executing the step 5, the two yelp windows running in the current workspace grouped under one tab in the panel. 7) I think both yelp windows should not be grouped together under one tab in the panel since they don't have any parent-child relationships. 8) The grouping never happened for applications like eog , terminal unless they have parent -child relationships. .Only Yelp is an exception.
This is... weird. I guess I was confused- I thought it /always/ grouped on name, but it doesn't. That's odd. I'd argue, personally, that this is a reversed argument- that it is broken for terminals and not yelp, since (1) I'm pretty sure it used to always group on names and (2) having zillions of terminals lined up along the bottom of the screen makes the list hard to use, which is the whole /point/ of grouping. Either way not a /huge/ bug.
Luis, the behaviour is not constant, even if we assume that it will group all the windows with the same name(for example in ghex, it is not happening. I started two separate instances. Still it is not grouping all the windows). Also for yelp, it is now grouping all the yelp windows into one tab eventhough they are started separately. code taken on 5th may. version of windowlist - 1.0. I think window list should not behave differently for different applications. I think grouping under name makes more sense.
Duping *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76159 ***