Re: can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

El lun, 02-04-2007 a las 08:49 -0400, jhonyl netscape net escribi� can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

No; it's hardcoded :(

> Reasoning: I remember spatially where is what. Currently my grouped
> web browser windows are switching places with each other every time I
> move between tabs (and the window title change). And so I can't
> remember what is where, and have to open all my windows one by one and
> search the opened tabs. In an other popular OS, for comparison there
> is no sorting, and there I remember what is where according to its
> place in the group list, and so I don't have to search all windows
> each time I look at a different tab.

Good point.  You may want to try creating a little patch.  The sorting
happens in libwnck/libwnck/tasklist.c --- look for where
wnck_task_compare_alphabetically() is used; it's only used where the
windows within a group are sorted.

  Federico