Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]



On 30 Apr 2002, Damien Sandras wrote:

> Le mar 30/04/2002 à 02:49, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> > 
> > 
> > What I mean is that this stuff from the 1.4 config file is no longer
> > needed:
> > 
> >  follow_panel_size=true
> >  horz_fixed=true
> >  horz_never_push=false
> >  horz_width=450
> >  horz_rows=2
> >  horz_taskwidth=150
> >  vert_fixed=true
> >  vert_height=300
> >  vert_never_push=false
> >  vert_width=48
> >  vert_width_full=0
> > 
> > And to my knowledge we have not gotten a bug report or email asking
> > for any of that to come back, since the tasklist was fixed to just
> > work layout-wise.
> >  
> 
> I could do a bug report and I'll perhaps do one though. On my Gnome2
> installation, it is impossible to add any applet to a panel running the
> tasklist applet, because even if only one application is running, the
> only thing that I obtain by rigth-clicking on the panel is the tasklist
> menu. I have no other choice than to remove the tasklist, add my applet
> or button, and add the tasklist again... I guess that having the options
> here above would have solved that problem.

I though I fixed that. Are you running an old version of libwnck and the 
panel? 

This is exactly the sort of thing we should *not* do. Instead of adding 11 
hard to understand options that totally limit the way we can do the 
tasklist layout we should FIX THE BUG.
 
> Another problem (of the WM or of the tasklist applet) is that the
> tasklist applet always displays *all* applications. Even if you specify
> to not show some application in the tasklist, it is shown. I don't know
> if it is a sawfish or a tasklist applet problem, but I miss this feature
> for applications like gkrellm.

Hmmm. It works for me. Very strange. 

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