Re: Regressions in GNOME 2 vs 1.x

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

Why not use the window hint for grouping?


On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:08:47PM -0500, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 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