Re: gTaskbar: a GNOME panel taskbar



On 27 Nov, sml13@cornell.edu scribbled:
->  The Gnome pager doesn't do process switching, right?  You can flames me to 
->  hell, but I think being able to switch by processes is very nice (it is 
->  one of the things I like about KDE, Win95, WinNT, and fvwm95).  With 
->  utmost respect to Raster (the author of the Gnome pager, judging from the 
->  source) and you, Jeff, I think that Mike's "process switching" pager 
->  should be included in the core distribution, when it is ready.  

the gnome pager does process switching.. happily :)

->  Am I the only one who likes this?
->  
->  my $0.02
->  shane
->  
->  On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
->  
->  > Miguel de Icaza wrote:
->  > > 
->  > > 
->  > > > Of course for such a thing to work, the window manager must be
->  > > > patched up.  I have currently only patched Window Maker so far.
->  > > 
->  > > Interesting applet, I like it.
->  > > 
->  > > I know the KDE Window Manager has some protocol to tell their panel
->  > > about the existing windows open.  It would be nice to have a
->  > > compatible protocol here and add this protocol to the list of Window
->  > > Manager hints that GNOME understands.
->  > 
->  > I think this brings up the more general point that a window list is a
->  > much more useful 'task list' than a process list is...
->  > 
->  > 	Jeff
->  > 
->  > 
->  > 
->  > 
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