Bug#474997: gnome-panel: Window list does not group by process

[Tim Cutts]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.3-6
Severity: normal

According to the documnetation for the window list applet, the "Always
group windows":  "Select this option to always group windows of the same
process under one Window List button".  Unfortunately this isn't what it
does; it groups windows according to their window title, as far as I can
tell.  It most definitely doesn't group according to process - try
running two copies of the following tk script:

#!/usr/bin/wish

button .b \
    -text "Click to raise window 2" \
    -command "raise .t"
pack .b

toplevel .t
pack [label .t.l -text "window 2"]

wm group .t .

You'll get two group buttons in the window list, but they're grouped by
window title, not by process at all.  It's actually completely ignoring
the grouping hints that tk is using (which is what the wm group line
does).

Ideally, my users would like the applet to behave as it is documented,
but I realise that's probably quite hard to do, especially when the
process is remote.

But if it can't be fixed, the documentation should probably be changed
to more accurately reflect the behaviour of the program.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about            2.14.3-2          The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center   1:2.14.2-7        utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data     2.14.3-2          Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus            2.16.1-3          an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data       2.14.3-6          common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.12.4-3          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.14.0-3          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.14.0-5          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.2.4-4           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libecal1.2-6           1.6.3-5etch1      Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-7    1.6.3-5etch1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-6  1.6.3-5etch1      GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4            2.16.1-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.0-4         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.12.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.14.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2         2.16.1-3          an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.16.0-2          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.14.1-2          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.14.2-7        GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.20-7          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.3-0.2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.14.3-6          library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.14.8-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18              2.14.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg               0.2.3             freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  evolution-data-server       1.6.3-5etch1 evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets               2.14.3-4     Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-session               2.14.3-5     The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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