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Bug 86185 - Feature request: Group tasks by desktop
Feature request: Group tasks by desktop
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52225
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-22 11:21 UTC by Torsten Schoenfeld
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Torsten Schoenfeld 2002-06-22 11:21:43 UTC
Description:
Currently (if 'Show windows from all desktops' is selected) the tasks
are ordered by startup regardless of the workspace they were started on
- that is, the first program started is the left-most in the task list,
the second one is the second, etc.

What I'd like to see is this: If 'Show windows from all desktops' is
selected all tasks are shown but they are grouped by workspace (with
some space or a vertical bar seperating windows from different
workspaces) and only wihtin these groups they are ordered by startup.

That way one could easily group and thereby categorize tasks. The first
workspace could function as the "communication workspace" on which all
tasks are somehow related to irc/icq/napster; the second workspace is
the "devel workspace" for compiling and editing things - and so on. You
can then reach the environment you want by clicking on one of the tasks
belonging to it.

A practical example:

1. On workspace1 you open xchat.
2. On workspace4 you open galeon.
3. On workspace2 you open a terminal to do a cvs update.
4. On workspace1 you open a terminal to browse some irc-logs.
5. On workspace2 you open a terminal to edit the new de.po of lopster.
6. On workspace1 you open lopster.

With the mechanism I propose this would lead to the followong tasklist:

[xchat][terminal (logs)][lopster] | [terminal (cvs)][terminal (de.po)] |
| [galeon]

which would greatly improve usability.

This behaviour is "stolen" from KDE 1.1's panel (don't know about later
versions).
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-17 16:35:48 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52225 ***
Comment 2 Anna Marie Dirks 2002-09-17 16:58:00 UTC
Wow, this is a nice suggestion! If it can be implemented via a
simple-to-apply patch, I'd be happy to test it in the Ximian usability
testing lab and post results for ya. 

-Anna