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Bug 97491 - file type information as window property for grouping
file type information as window property for grouping
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: tasklist
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 155904
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-02 16:49 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2018-01-24 13:19 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-11-02 16:49:32 UTC
I dont really think metacity is the correct place to file this bug, but
it's the only way i know of that i can file a bug with the wm spec :)
(maybe libwnck would have been better, but this will most definately need
to be supported at the wm level)

Grouping in the window list is sort of substandard from a usability
perspective because it requires application association by the user. A
better way to support this would be to group files by type. For example
regardless of what text viewer i am viewing various text files with, they
would all be grouped. This lets the user associate grouping with the type
of files they are viewing, which is probably better/easier.

As a fallback we could always group by application.

I don't really know too much about the wm spec, so i'll leave the technical
stuff to you. :)

note: I've brought this up on the hig list and as a short term solution i
think we could just specify that document based applications should set
their app name to "grouped 'file type'" etc. This hack would probably work
for the mean time.
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2002-12-18 17:26:40 UTC
Hmm, interesting idea but I can imagine people getting quite
frustrated because their idea of grouping doesn't match ours... I
think this would have to be an option at best, and we all know what
Havoc thinks about those :)  

E.g. if I've got a plain text document open in OpenOffice Writer,
should that be grouped with my open gedit documents?  Probably yes. 
But what if it contains formatted text and/or pictures, is it still a
plain text document?  If I embed a spreadsheet into it, should it turn
up grouped with any other spreadsheets I have open?  If it contains
only a picture, wouldn't it be better grouped with my open GIMP
images?  What if I Save it as HTML... does it then jump into my
browser group...?  And so on.

Now, if we had a vfolder-like concept for mime-types based on the
document's actual content ("this document is a combination of text,
hyperlinks and a spreadsheet so it should show up in all those
groups").... :)
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-18 22:00:04 UTC
I think we should just dup this on the libwnck bug for "group by
class/name instead of by group leader window"
and change that bug to "figure out how to group windows"
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 13:19:35 UTC
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