Re: Enhanced Gnome tools

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:24:34PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
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> Let me give an example: the panel window list widget in Gnome 2 is quite
> useless for me.  I'm sure it's fine if you have 5 or 10 windows open,
> but it's very, very rare that I have less than 30 windows open on my
> desktop.  Even with my 21" monitor at 1600x1200 resolution and the
> window list taking up 75+% of the panel, I can't see enough of the
> titles on the window widgets to know which one I want (by the nature of
> the development work I do I have _lots_ of xterms open to all different
> systems in the lab, etc. and the title is critical).

I'm curious to know what is the nature of the work that requires so many
xterms. If you could identify the requirements, perhaps someone could
devise an application to meet them.

I could help with the interface design, but probably couldn't help with
the non-gui code.

Cheers,
Greg