Bug 303802

Summary:	previews in window bar should be ordered by screen position
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	von.kdebugs
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.8.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://wstaw.org/m/2012/07/19/crit4.png
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Description von.kdebugs 2012-07-19 15:20:31 UTC

I usually remember where the windows are on the screen, like the left and the right Dolphin in the screenshot. When I hover over the window bar at the bottom I get a box which shows the two Dolphin windows. But the right window is on the left and the other way around! I often click onto the left one, expecting the left one to come up, but the right one comes up.

If the windows were sorted by x (left-right) position, it could leverage the spatial memory of the user. Right now, the windows seem unsorted to me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open multiple windows of the same kind and group them in the window bar.
2. With the effect enabled, hover over the bar.
3. Click on the left window.
Actual Results:  
One of the window, usually not the left, will come up.

Expected Results:  
I expect the left to come up since I think spatially about my windows.

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2012-07-19 15:51:08 UTC

KWin only renders windows where the tasks applet asks the window to be rendered. KWin does not know that there are multiple windows of the same application to be rendered together. The tasks applet has to tell KWin the ordering.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:56:54 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham