Bug 190290

Summary:	Task manager doesn't group windows
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Michael Eager <eager>
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, des, echidnaman, joe
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Incorrect task manager display.

Description Michael Eager 2009-04-21 20:08:26 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

The task manager doesn't consistently recognize windows which should be grouped.  This seems to happen most often with firefox windows, but that may be because I frequently have several firefox windows open.  Task manager will group some occurrences but leave others ungrouped.  

Attached screen shot shows additional problem -- the task manager shows three windows when there are actually only two on the screen.

Comment 1 Michael Eager 2009-04-21 20:09:42 UTC

Created attachment 32994 [details]
Incorrect task manager display.

Comment 2 Josh Berry 2009-05-16 04:29:40 UTC

Reproduced on trunk r967825.  I've also observed this behavior consistently with new gvim and Kopete windows.

The behavior with Kopete is strange, however.  When I open a chat window by clicking on a contact in my contact list, most (if not all) of the time, the taskbar groups it correctly.  However, if a chat window is opened because someone IMed me, most (if not all) of the time, the window is not grouped.

This behavior has been very consistent for me, since the taskbar first got the ability to group programs.

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-09-27 19:59:47 UTC

- Can you check if this has improved on 4.3/4.4 ? Thanks

Comment 4 Michael Eager 2009-09-27 20:47:54 UTC

Possibly less consistent than before -- raising the new window a few times will sometimes cause it to be grouped.  Or maybe after a while (10-15 seconds) the window is grouped automatically.  

However, there is now an additional incorrect behaviour:  as before, when I open a new window (again using Firefox) the Task Manager displays a entry for the new window.  As before, this appears on all desktops.  Now clicking on this entry does nothing -- it does not raise the window, or, on other desktops, return to the desktop which contains the window.

Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-09-30 22:57:57 UTC

The issue about that "ghost" entry is being tracked at bug 202199. Thanks

Comment 6 Jonathan Thomas 2010-01-01 16:21:54 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 195890 ***