Re: [Usability] Changing the taskbar semantics

[markus hammer <hm sabotage at>]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 11:00 +0200, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > This is good news, but it only solved the problem for gimp. (I was hoping for 
> > a general way to take always the right decision automatically :-))
> > 
> > Or are you suggesting that, in general, the taskbar should take the hints into 
> > account? With what logic exactly?
> > 
> 
> Yes, my suggestion is that window hints are here for a reason. Document
> window should appear in the taskbar, and utility windows shouldn't.
> GNOME's taskbar already handles that very well. Now, application
> developers should make better use of window hints... and users should
> file bugs about window hints to application developers.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151591

just an enhancement though...

m.