Enhancement: Window Menu Applet (wnck-applet) Updates Contents if a Window's Name Changes while the List is Open

["Matt T. Proud" <khanreaper nerp net>]

Hello everybody,

I should first start by saying that this is my first post to this 
mailing list, and if I happen to be submitting this message to the wrong 
crowd, I preemptively apologize.

For the past few weeks, I have been toying around with Gnome's Window 
Menu Applet, incrementally adding new features to it and what now; but I 
reached some development roadblocks and decided to submit just some 
small changes that I have made to it at this time.

This patch instructs the applet to make use of WNCK's "name_changed" 
signal when it connects to a window and renames the item in the menu, if 
the menu happens to be open. While this patch is more aesthetic than 
functional, I thought it would give the applet some needed polish. Under 
the following situation one may find this feature useful: suppose one 
starts loading a web page and clicks open the menu applet; the applet 
will then rename the item in the list to reflect a web page's new title, 
once it is loaded.

This patch has been filed at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156439 for anyone who has 
interest.

As I said earlier, I have been doing some other work to this applet and 
expect to contribute some major enhancements in the near future. 
Although this web page and its content are out-dated, one can view some 
of the in-progress features at 
http://www.nerp.net/~khanreaper/window-menu-patch/. The things noted 
here will be submitted when they are "done."

On another note, I should mention that I am just an inexperienced, 
self-taught programmer; so if one finds any glaring bugs in this patch, 
please tell me.

Best of regards,

Matt T. Proud
http://process-of-elimination.net // http://www.wherearethewmd.org