According to the changelogs, XFCE was changed to NOT do this somewhere around 4.3.99.2, but I think this was a terrible mistake. Right now, if I have an urgent window on another workspace trying to get my attention, I have no way of knowing it. It'll just sit there flashing away until I happen to change to that workspace. The solution suggested by a developer is to just display windows from all workspaces in the task list. But what if that isn't how I use my task list? Right now, the flashing urgent windows feature is completely worthless if your task list is only showing windows from one workspace. Letting the task list display windows from other workspaces when they are set as urgent is a simple, clean, and extremely common solution to this problem (I know Gnome and IceWM do this, and I suspect KDE, too!).
That behavior annoys me; that's why I removed it.
(In reply to comment #1) > That behavior annoys me; that's why I removed it. > I've commiserated with other users on IRC who were also sad to see it go. Couldn't you make it an optional setting instead of removing it completely?
Sure: patches accepted. As I said, it annoys me. If people want to see it come back (as an optional feature), someone else will have to do the work.
(In reply to comment #3) > Sure: patches accepted. As I said, it annoys me. If people want to see it > come back (as an optional feature), someone else will have to do the work. I'm afraid many of us normal users are not capable of making such patches - even if we want to. I would appriciate if this could be reconsidered.
Well, it's moot now -- 4.5/4.6 uses libwnck to draw the taskbar, and it has the behavior you desire already. So I guess it's fixed.
Alright, I wasn't aware of that since I am running 4.4.2 still. Thanks!