Re: Window groups and multiple desktops

[Michael Rogers <banthafodder connectfree co uk>]

Philipp Lohmann wrote:
> > With b), the issue is that you can't minimize just one document.
> > Might be inconvenient.
> 
> I think this might be more useful as an additional option in WM menus
> like "minimize whole group". This should IMHO not be what happens when i
> press minimize on a single window.

Even if that window is the group leader? When I iconify the group leader
(eg the GIMP toolbar), I'd like the whole group to be iconified. But I'd
like to be able to iconify other members of the group (dialogs, editing
windows) without affecting the whole group. (Think of window-in-window
MDI: the group leader should behave like the enclosing window.)

> Is an application based tasklist really useful ? A tasklist should
> contain all the "document" windows of an app (e.g. all picture editing
> windows of the gimp, or all documents of an office suit), because these
> are separate tasks for the user that he wants to minimize (or whatever)
> separately.

The tasklist could sort the windows into submenus based on window
groups:
 __________
|Windows   |
|----------|
|Terminal  |  (each terminal is a logically separate application)
|Terminal  |
|Mutt      |_________
|The GIMP >|The GIMP |  (group leader: operates on entire group)
|XMMS     >|---------|
 ----------|foo.jpg  |
           |bar.xcf  |  (operates on a single window)
           |Channels |
            ---------

Michael