Re: tasklist applet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Mark D'voo" <mailinglists insightbb com> writes:
> Are we ever going to see more configuration for the tasklist applet, like we 
> used to see in 1.4?  I'd really like to see the options, horizontal 
> orientation or vertical orientation, and also, dont' follow panel size, and 
> make the size the length of the longest title.
> 

Query for libwnck bugs and look at stuff on the GNOME2.x milestone to
see some of the plans. 

For all those options you need to go through these questions:

 - why do you want the different behavior

 - why would someone _not_ want the different behavior

 - if _everyone_ wants the different behavior, we should just switch
   to it, not make it an option. Does everyone want it? Why or why
   not?

 - if there are two different behaviors needed, can the two cases be
   autodetected? if so let's do that, no need to make the user
   configure it manually.

 - is the reason for wanting or not wanting a minor issue that doesn't
   matter much? if so, then we should just pick a default, it's not
   worth a preference.

If both the reason to want and the reason to not want are significant,
and we can't autodetect the situation where you want one vs. the
other, maybe it should be a preference.

If you file bugs for the features you want, please include answers to
the above questions. In particular the bug should ask for a problem or
inconvenience to be solved (explain _what problem_ you are trying to
solve), rather than assuming a particular solution such as adding a
config option.

In short, config options are not features in themselves, they are
means to an end; what is the end. Always start with that.

Havoc