Inefficient sizing in window list applet

[Gintautas Miliauskas]

Window list (taskbar) usage is inefficient when an even number of windows is
opened. For more details see:
https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/tasks/420

https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/tasks/420: https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/tasks/420

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you think than http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125023 describes the
same bug?

[Gintautas Miliauskas (gintas)]

Bug #125023 is rather extensive. I looked it through and found discussions
about lots of things, but not about the particular problem I'm having (notably
that sizing of an _even_ number of buttons is wrong). Even if this bug is
related to 125023, it's much clearer and more obvious, easily reproducable and,
in my opinion, what the fix should change is obvious.

I can attach screenshots if you'd like. but I did not think that it was really
needed. It's so easy to reproduce (turn off window grouping to make the problem
more visible).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks for the comment. Your bug seems to be upstream
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155870

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-panel (1:2.19.5-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Panel
    - Make changing orientation of an expanded panel work better when
      dragging the panel
    - Fix name of launcher created by dropping an URI on the panel
      (LP: #35919)
    - Improve handling of size hints from applets. This is needed for the
      tasklist sizing algorithm to correctly work
    - Use new icon for recent documents
    - Save the panel position relatively to the right/bottom edge of the
      monitor when needed. This fixes a lot of problems, like the panel
      being at the center of the screen when resizing the screen or when
      the size of the panel grows. (LP: #39856)
    - Also do not save the position of the panel in gconf when the position
      is changed because of constraints. This also fixes a lot of problems,
      like the panel suddenly snapping to the center or an edge of the
      screen because its size has changed.
    - Fix crash when a panel is destroyed whil its context menu is opened
    - Make it possible to have bigger panels (up to 1/5 the screen size)
      for people wanting sidebars
    - Fix a crash in the lockdown checking code
    - Don't use nautilus-home.desktop for the places menu, but makes the
      item a real place item
    - Automatically use the right icon for launchers for $HOME or ~/Desktop
    - Migrate to GtkTooltip
    - Code cleanups
    - Add a detail for theming the arrow in the button widget
    - Add new _GNOME_PANEL_ACTION_KILL_DIALOG action to the panel action
      protocol
    - Use program-name instead of name property for GtkAboutDialog
    gnome-desktop-item-edit
    - Use g_option_context_set_translation_domain()
    All applets
    - Use gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text()
    - Use program-name instead of name property for GtkAboutDialog
    - Fix compilation
    Clock Applet
    - Sort completed tasks last, treat unprioritised tasks as normal
      priority, and fall back on sorting by summary
    - Add a first version of timezone support. This needs some UI love.
    Window List Applet
    - Do not call wnck_screen_force_update(). Fix a crash.
    - Code cleanups
    - Fix window list sizing (most of the changes are in libwnck) (LP: #16391)
    - Deprecate minimum/maximum size settings
    Workspace Switcher Applet
    - Code cleanups
    - Show/hide some of the settings in the properties dialog depending on
      the window manager, since some of the settings are not saved or don't
      make sense when metacity is not used.
    Misc
    - Require libwnck 2.19.5
    - Add libbonobo and libbonoboui explicit checks for compilation
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libwnck requirement
  * debian/patches/01_layout.patch:
    - updated
  * debian/patches/09_lpi.patch:
    - updated
  * debian/patches/12_autoreconf.patch:
    - updated

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:33:05 +0200