On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:07, John Lumby wrote:
> Thanks for the quick replies.
>
> Andrew wrote
>
> >Quick answer: No, the 1.4 tasklist will not embed into a 2.x panel.
> >
> >If you could write up the regressions in the new tasklist that make it
> >unusable for you and file that in bugzilla.gnome.org that would be
> >really useful.
>
> I am in the process of doing so.
>
> Mark wrote
>
> >Screenshots would really clearify this
>
> Thanks for that suggestion. I am attaching them here and hope you can view
> them ok:
> Screenshot-TaskList-RH7.jpg
> Screenshot-Panel-RH9.png
> Each one shows a list of 25 windows, of which 12 are identical windows with
> what should be identical bitmap icons, and it's these with which I am having
> difficulty on RH9. I hope you can see which are the "matching" 12 - the
> icon of each is some very simple cartoon-like "drawing" in black on white
> bg.
> On RH7 the icon fills the cell and the contrast between the black drawing
> and the white bg is very clear.
> In the RH9 windowlist they are shrunk into a half-size box in the cell and
> also they are reversed, black foreground on dark-grey background. The
> overall effect is that they are almost indistinguishable from each other, at
> least with my eyes. As I have to frequently switch from one to another.
> this is a serious obstacle for me. I have looked for ways to alter them
> but don't see anything.
>
> I suppose my question is really:
> what can I do to make my RH9 windowlist/tasklist look like my RH7
> TaskList?
>
> Thanks very much (if you can suggest something)
>
> John
From a brief scan, the most obvious improvement is expanding the window
list icons to fill the entire height of the button they are in.
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