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

[jhonyl netscape net]

 

Hi,

 

I have commented out the sort section by moving the */ down like this:

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/* Sort
          class_group_task->windows = g_list_sort (class_group_task->windows,
                                                   wnck_task_compare_alphabetically);
          */
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I have built and installed the newly created package, and it seems to work fine, no sorting, though I tested it only for only 10 minutes now, so maybe something will go wrong in the future. I hope not.

 

Regards. 

 

 

P.S. Should I submit a patch? how/where to etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: federico ximian com
To: jhonyl netscape net
Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

El lun, 02-04-2007 a las 08:49 -0400, jhonyl netscape net escribió:
> 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

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