Broken sorting of windows in Window Buttons

[Ryan Daly]

In the "Window Buttons" component of the Xfce4-panel, there are options for sorting windows. Currently, I have selected "Group title and window title", yet the sort does not appear to be working properly when window grouping is activated.

I will attach a screenshot of what I am seeing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xfce4-panel 4.8.6-2ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 3.14.0-031400rc6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 13 10:27:41 2014
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Adrien (bresson-adrien)]

Created attachment 5072
Grouped items are not sorted by title

I'm using xfce 4.10.0 with ubuntu 13.04 (xfce4-panel 4.10.0)

On my xfce4-panel I use "Window buttons" with
 * sorting order : Window title
 * window grouping : Always

Not grouped windows are correctly sorted by title, but grouped windows are not.

Please take a look at the atteched files

Best regards,

Adrien

[Bugs-xfce (bugs-xfce)]

This issue still exists in 4.10.1 (x86_64 gentoo) just as Adrien describes. Changing to "Group title and window title" also has the same result when grouping is turned on.

Is there any updated information on this? Perhaps it's fixed in 4.11.0?

This bug makes it nearly impossible to work in an application with more than 10 windows, and as a sysadmin, that's not at all unusual.