Bug 195890

Summary:	window grouping doesn't work
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	michal
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, aseigo, asraniel, eager, nightrow, tampakrap
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Taskbar that should benefit from window groupping

Description michal 2009-06-10 15:23:17 UTC

Version:           unknown (using 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3), PLD-Linux)
Compiler:          i686-pld-linux-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.13-1

Taskbar doesn't group windows. I have nine kwrite windows, four Open Office windows and only two Open Office windows are groupped.

Taskbar is so clogged, that I can see only icon and first one or two characters of window tite.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-06-10 20:06:48 UTC

what are the tasks widget settings?

Comment 2 michal 2009-06-15 09:52:27 UTC

Appearance
Show tooltips
Maximum rows: 2

Grouping & Sorting
Grouping by program name (only when taskbar is full)
Sorting: alphabetically

Unchecking "only when taskbar is full" helps but, belive me, it is full.

Comment 3 michal 2009-06-24 10:52:46 UTC

Actually unchecking "only when taskbar is full" doesn't help much - see attached screenshot.

Note that Okular, OpenOffice Writer and Icedove windows are grouped, but KWrite windows are not.

Comment 4 michal 2009-06-24 11:13:58 UTC

Created attachment 34780 [details]
Taskbar that should benefit from window groupping

Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-09-27 20:01:01 UTC

- Has the situation improved on KDE4.3 ? Thanks

Comment 6 michal 2009-09-28 10:27:44 UTC

I'm not sure. Maybe it's bit better, but still far from perfect. For example right now KWrite instances are being grouped, but OpenOffice windows are not.

Comment 7 jb benoit 2009-12-18 22:19:20 UTC

I'm on kde SC4.4 beta 1, and the situation seems no better.
I asked to group windows, without ticking "when taskbar full", and none of the 16 firefox windows i hopened did group.
I noticed that each new instance has a new name ("firefox", "firefox <2>" and so), maybe it's the source of the problem ?

Comment 8 Jonathan Thomas 2010-01-01 16:21:55 UTC

*** Bug 190290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Theo Chatzimichos 2010-01-13 15:13:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> I noticed that each new instance has a new name ("firefox", "firefox <2>" and
> so), maybe it's the source of the problem ?

I don't think so, this is how new instances are named either way. For the record, I couldn't reproduce with latest trunk, could someone please try with 4.4 RC?

Comment 10 Beat Wolf 2010-05-07 14:55:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 201761 ***