The Window List, a popular -- and some might say, integral -- widget for Gnome's Panels could use an upgrade. I propose these options:
- view icons only -- in this mode, if one wants to know the title of the window, they can position the pointer over the window's box
- option to group window list items by workspace #
- example: I have three tomboy notes windows open, two firefox windows, two file browsers open, and one terminal. They are spread across all desktops. I would want the windows on the bottom to rearrange themselves to match up to the desktops that they correspond to. The window list can be visually partitioned by some sort of high contrast divider between window list items on different desktops. [Gnome 2.20's release notes say that 2.20 shipped with a similar feature in its Window Selector panel widget, but I do not see this functionality there either.]
What changes or features would you contribute to the Window List, if you could?
So a great contributor hacked together a little gnome applet that approximates what I'm talking about here. You can see the sourceforge page
here. It's called
talika. Looks like you'll have to compile it from source, but I had all of the dependencies so it shouldn't be too hard for you to compile either (as long as you have svn and basic essential build tools). Copy and paste the following svn stuff into your terminal, and then do the typical make/install routine.
svn co https://talika.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/talika/trunk talika
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