Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> writes: 
> I could do a bug report and I'll perhaps do one though. On my Gnome2
> installation, it is impossible to add any applet to a panel running the
> tasklist applet, because even if only one application is running, the
> only thing that I obtain by rigth-clicking on the panel is the tasklist
> menu. I have no other choice than to remove the tasklist, add my applet
> or button, and add the tasklist again... I guess that having the options
> here above would have solved that problem.

I already stated that we may add a maximum size option, which solves
that problem. You don't need that big pile of options for this.

> Another problem (of the WM or of the tasklist applet) is that the
> tasklist applet always displays *all* applications. Even if you specify
> to not show some application in the tasklist, it is shown. I don't know
> if it is a sawfish or a tasklist applet problem, but I miss this feature
> for applications like gkrellm.

That's a bug in gkrellm; gkrellm should be fixed, it should not be
papered over with dumb window manager options.

Havoc