things about tasklist-plugin "manual ordering"

Zidane · 2011-04-13 19:17:23

Not so long ago i switched to Xfce from gnome (because gnome 3 is ugly).
All in Xfce suits me except ordering in tasklist-plugin. I want to manually drag'n'drop window buttons, and order how i want.
So, I opened source-codes of tasklist plugin, and find solutiion for it like this:
1. Enable drag'n'drop window buttons widgets to other window buttons widgets.
2. After dragging widget A to widget B take B->unique_id and write it to A->unique_id.
3. Make unique_id++ for B widget and widgets thats have unique_id greater than B->unique_id.
4. For XFCE_TASKLIST_SORT_ORDER_MANUAL use same logic as for XFCE_TASKLIST_SORT_ORDER_TIMESTAMP (by unique_id).

I hope that will help's.

P.S. I don't know gtk-programming, and can't make it by myself, so I will hope for your help.

Last edited by Zidane (2011-04-13 19:20:26)

etnlWings · 2011-04-14 09:23:25

All in Xfce suits me except ordering in tasklist-plugin. I want to manually drag'n'drop window buttons, and order how i want.

You can already do this in Xfce 4.6. I haven't spent much time with Xfce 4.8 but from what I recall, this functionality is intact.

Zidane · 2011-04-14 14:11:39

etnlWings, in 4.6 yes, it's how i want, but in 4.8 new method of sorting tasklist panel. And in my distro exists only 4.8

Nick · 2011-04-14 21:13:30

Your solution might indeed work, but reordering the window list is basically the same (but faster). However this is work in progress and will still show up in 4.8 once I find time to write the code.

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7142

etnlWings · 2011-04-16 15:52:43

Zidane, my mistake.

Oh and hey Nick, you wouldn't be able to add a 'no icons, text only' mode to the tasklist plugin, would you?

Also, crazy idea I don't seriously expect to ever be implemented: have tasklist ordering (and possible justification) correspond to windows' physical locations. It'd be cool if the windows I keep on the right of my screen also had their tasklist items keep to the right. Basically have ordering ruled by the x axis values of the windows' centres, with the y axis values for tie breaking (or visa versa for vertical tasklists).

Nick · 2011-04-16 16:23:13

etnlWings wrote:

Oh and hey Nick, you wouldn't be able to add a 'no icons, text only' mode to the tasklist plugin, would you?

That is already possible with minimized-icon-lucency=0, see README.gtkrc-2.0

etnlWings wrote:

Also, crazy idea I don't seriously expect to ever be implemented: have tasklist ordering (and possible justification) correspond to windows' physical locations. It'd be cool if the windows I keep on the right of my screen also had their tasklist items keep to the right. Basically have ordering ruled by the x axis values of the windows' centres, with the y axis values for tie breaking (or visa versa for vertical tasklists).

That would be very time consuming to sort: the kinda stuff we don't want in Xfce.

etnlWings · 2011-04-17 14:07:32

Nick wrote:

etnlWings wrote:
Oh and hey Nick, you wouldn't be able to add a 'no icons, text only' mode to the tasklist plugin, would you?
That is already possible with minimized-icon-lucency=0, see README.gtkrc-2.0

That would appear to only apply to hidden windows, unless there's some kind of special case for the 0 value. I don't have 4.8 installed ATM so I can't test.

That would be very time consuming to sort: the kinda stuff we don't want in Xfce.

Like I said, crazy idea I don't seriously expect to ever be implemented.

Nick · 2011-04-17 21:18:33

etnlWings wrote:

Nick wrote:
etnlWings wrote:
Oh and hey Nick, you wouldn't be able to add a 'no icons, text only' mode to the tasklist plugin, would you?
That is already possible with minimized-icon-lucency=0, see README.gtkrc-2.0
That would appear to only apply to hidden windows, unless there's some kind of special case for the 0 value. I don't have 4.8 installed ATM so I can't test.

Yes, 0 is a special case here, pretty sure it works, since I wrote the code ;-).

etnlWings · 2011-04-18 10:34:47

Okay, neat-o. Cheers.

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