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borders of windows being displayed when mouse moved over taskbar
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Window Buttons

Comments

Description Lars 2006-04-09 19:37:27 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.4 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.0.4 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)

I tought, it would be nice to have the borders of windows shown when i move the mouse over the correspondig buttons on the taskbar. This should look just like alt-tab does. I'm using the ubuntu-breezy debs and dunno, if alt-tab still has that feature.
The reason for this is, that i recognize windows by there size and position much faster than by their name, which i would have to read, interpret and so on. Not that i'm an analphabet (i'm typing, eh?). But if i alt-tab-cycle through lots of terminals i usually know, where which session was located... but am to lazy to parse the whole user@machine:/dir string which even doesn't reveal the program running in the session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Move mouse over taskbar
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Actual Results:  
nothin

Expected Results:  
Frames of windows apperaing
Comment 1 Harold Aling 2007-09-23 19:44:32 CEST
Nice request, but I don't think the Xfce devs are into this kind of features...

Comments?
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2009-03-23 07:39:40 CET
Implemented in the 4.8 panel, I added it without knowing there was a future request, so I guess it's accepted ;-).
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-02-27 15:08:38 CET
Devel branch has been merged in master. A 4.7.0 release will follow soon. If you think this bug is not fixed? Feel free to reopen the bug.

Bug #1651

Reported by:
Lars
Reported on: 2006-04-09
Last modified on: 2010-02-27

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
1 user

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