Re: Major issues with window list applet

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 16:18, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> mike <mike redtux demon co uk> writes: 
> > yes - it is useful to have fixed area to click
> 
> If you just slam your mouse to the edge of the panel, you can always
> right-click there to get the panel menu.
> 
> It's a bug that clicking on "blank" parts of the win list applet 
> gives you a winlist menu insted of panel menu. We don't want to add a
> preference in order to work around this bug.
> 
> > 1. how many rows
> 
> There are always as many rows as will fit in the panel. In the old
> tasklist, if you said "2 rows" and had a small panel, the panel would
> grow. So just making your panel large is the same as saying "2 rows"
> in effect. You can AFAICS always get the same effect as in the old 
> applet.

It does work but not especially intuitive - if you change from x-small
(the default to small the applets grow with the panel
> > 2. how to group items
> 
> There is an option for when to group - what additional grouping option
> is missing?
The options are 1.never 2. when space is limited 3.always
In gnome4 there is the far more useful option of saying how many
instances before grouping ie: a number so for example if it is set to 3,
if you have 3 terminals open you get 3 terms showing and if 4 you just
get one

> We don't want to add options when the problem is that the defaults are
> wrong. So we need to understand in specific detail what the actual
> usability problem you're encountering is, then fix the usability
> problem.
> 
> Havoc
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