Bug#474997: gnome-panel: Window list does not group by process

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 474997 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171804
thanks

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:52 +0100, Tim Cutts wrote:
> Wow - that's beyond the call of duty.  :-)  "Interesting" user  
> interface, n'est ce pas?  Quirky, but actually damned good at what it  
> does once you're used to it.

No problem, it's always fun to try something new, and acedb was
certainly something special :)

> > Just to make sure I don't misunderstand anything; You would prefer  
> > it if
> > there were two groups, one for each xace process? Alternatively, it
> > would be better if the group didn't sort the names alphabetically,
> > instead making it clear which windows belonged to which process?
> 
> Either of those solutions would be acceptable to my user I think.  The  
> first one is what the documentation appears to say it's supposed to  
> do.  I realise that this could be hard to do, because it would  
> probably do nasty things to e.g. terminal windows, depending on  
> whether the terminal window was opened by starting a fresh copy of  
> terminal, or using Ctrl+Shift+N.  The second one is probably easier to  
> do without incurring nasty behaviour for other applications.  I  
> suppose it could always be an additional configuration option...

Good, then I understood you correctly. The second solution has actually
been suggested before, in an upstream bug (the one I have marked the bug
as forwarded to). 

I suggest you add a comment to the bug, describe your use-case with
acedb and ask if anyone is working on it at the moment.


There's also a second upstream bug which might be of interest. This one
is about making it possible to have user created groups;
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362706

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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