Re: can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

[jhonyl netscape net]

 Hi,

 I looked at tasklist.c, and I think an other function like wnck_task_compare_alphabetically, should be created called something like wnck_task_compare_by_startup_time, which will compare the task by the time in which they were started. For such a function to work the startup time would need to be saved. Probably in the WnckTask(?). If it is not already there(?). I see that the WnckTask already have two time stamps  'guint32 dnd_timestamp' and 'gdouble glow_start_time'. However I can't figure out what exactly they are. From their names it looks like the time of a drag and drop, and the time of  glowing(?), which isn't startup time. Please give me a hint what they are, and if the startup time already is somewhere. An other thing that would be required is to select which function will be used, in the configuration file, and to have a function that accept this configuration and select by it either the alphabetic function or the by startup time function to be passed to the sorting  algorithm. That if the current behavior would be kept as optional behavior. There are lots of question marks above, I hope some replies would clear it out for me.

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: federico ximian com
To: jhonyl netscape net
Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

El lun, 02-04-2007 a las 08:49 -0400, jhonyl netscape net escribió:
> can I cancel the sort on grouped items in the taskbar?

No; it's hardcoded :(

> Reasoning: I remember spatially where is what. Currently my grouped
> web browser windows are switching places with each other every time I
> move between tabs (and the window title change). And so I can't
> remember what is where, and have to open all my windows one by one and
> search the opened tabs. In an other popular OS, for comparison there
> is no sorting, and there I remember what is where according to its
> place in the group list, and so I don't have to search all windows
> each time I look at a different tab.

Good point.  You may want to try creating a little patch.  The sorting
happens in libwnck/libwnck/tasklist.c --- look for where
wnck_task_compare_alphabetically() is used; it's only used where the
windows within a group are sorted.

  Federico

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