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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 June 2010 08:10, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 14:08 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
> > Is there a reason why DockbarX is not suitable for this? I've attached
> > a screenshot incase people dunno what I'm talking about :)
>
> That is what you would get if you removed the ... from the bar when they
> get resized.
>
> I never understood why there was a ... when no text could fit.
>
> Martin,
>
>
That's quite obviously a bug worth reporting :D

Regarding DockbarX, it does behave differently in than the default in that:

1. It always groups by application icon
2. It displays the application windows on hover, rather than on click

This makes it incredibly easy to use, any time you need to access a window,
say a Firefox window. You immediately move to the Firefox icon and select
the correct window with a single click. I've been trying to come up with a
better window switcher but I can't think of anything.

Luke.

P.S. I did try creating a DockbarX style window switcher with indicator
applet style menus (rather than the slightly inconsistent Cairo based
DockbarX ones) but I had no luck getting the menus to show and hide
correctly on mouseover/exit - I think that would have been pretty cool :)