Re: Regressions in GNOME 2 vs 1.x

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 8 Feb 2002, jacob berkman wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 07:35, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> 
> > Second, the task list (Again edge panel), groups any given number of
> > windows from the same task together.  I liked the old behavior of giving
> > a minimum before it will group.
> 
> i agree here.  when i use the task list i like it to group when there
> are > 1 tasks in the group.

You mean you want it to always group?

Currently the options are 
a) never group
or
b) try to be clever

The algorithm for b is somewhat involved, and not quite finished.
Basically, it tries to give each button at least DEFAULT_GROUPING_LIMIT 
pixels, and if that is not possible it picks one group to group and tries 
again. picking which group to group next is done by a scoring function 
that gives a score for each group depending on factors such as:
* Number of windows in the group
* Number of windows in the group with the same title 
* Total abount of focused time (this is not implemented fully yet)

The final scoring function has not been tuned at all, and probably should.

Perhaps we should add a third option
c) Always group windows

/ Alex