Re: Task bar

["Chris AtLee" <catlee globalserve net>]

This idea sounds great and reminds me of an idea I had a while back...One
thing I would like to see in gnome and/or E (I think it's more to do with E)
is the ability to configure where new windows will appear based on their
name.  It would be nice to have all your Netscape FTP windows to all appear
on their own desktop.  Also, the ability to configure the z-order of new
windows would be useful.  Imagine reading /. in the morning, middle-clicking
on all the stories you're interested in to pop up a dozen netscape windows
underneath the current window, or even on another desktop altogether!

Cheers,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Toller <mst@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: Task bar


>Hi,
>
> I'm now using SCWM (love the configurability) and gnome, I've been
> keeping an eye on gnome for a while, and its starting to look good :-)
>
> Anyhow, I very often have many many windows open on one desktop -
> netscape being a prime example!  This leads to a tak bar of little or
> no use, as all the names are truncated to almost nothing, and it
> becomes a bit of a guess as to which item you want.
>
> One solution which may be of use here would be to group all similar
> windows into one task bar button, which then pops up a list of
> available windows... i.e. all netscape windows only consume one task
> bar button, and when you click it you get the equivalent of the task
> list button, but only showing netscape windows.
>
> Even if this is a simple hack, such as grouping by the first few
> characters of the window title this could be achieved, and all my
> nxterms running VIM would appear under one button.
>
> Any thoughts on this, or am I going to have to hack it myself (when I
> get time).
>
> Mark.