GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 99432
Window list should allow a single group for all
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
What I *really* want is an option not to have the buttons for applications at all, and instead have the window list just present a popup menu of all the windows. Sort of like the Sawfish root-window menu. However, since that's a pretty major change, here's a proposal that could be enabled by one gconf boolean option: group all windows together regardless of their class. That way, the task list has exactly one icon which holds a popup menu of all my windows. Voila! I can set the size to be whatever I want and I will be so, so happy with gnome-2. Just for giggles, I'm going to also submit an enhancement request to the workspace switcher to add a popup window list a la gnome-1, but I'm guessing that got axed intentionally and won't be coming back.
Bill: do you want something like the thing in the upper right corner (on the menu panel) ? Or something different ?
Right, that's it exactly. I don't like menu panels so I don't have one and never noticed that this feature existed. It would be very keen to have it available in other panels as an applet. /me plays with menu panels a bit hm... maybe they aren't so bad after all :) I've been finding that the more I make myself do things the "Gnome2 Way" the happier I am ... b.g.
I was sure this is a duplicate. Now I've found the original bug :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72783 ***