taskbar expander confusion

[Carol Spears]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:59:20PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 10/12/2005 1:41 PM, Carol Spears wrote:
> > 
> > when i first saw these expander things in the task bar, my first idea
> > was that i would be able to use different sizes in the taskbar for the
> > different tasks that appear there -- which would have been useful to me.
> > i think they are being used to tell that there is more than one task
> > being represented there.  the little symbol though looks like a mouse
> > should be able to grab it and resize it though.
> > 
> > here are some screenshots:
> > http://carol.gimp.org/files/screenshot-2005-10-12-4x-expander.png for an
> > enlarged view of what i am try to explain here.
> > http://carol.gimp.org/files/screenshot-2005-10-12.png
> > my apologies to xfterm developers and xfmedia player.  the xfterm has
> > been difficult for me to migrate to and xfmedia player came broken
> > broken broken from debian.
> > 
> Those aren't expanders.  It's just an indication that the taskbar has
> "grouped" several windows of the same application under the same taskbar
> button to conserve space.  I believe there's an option somewhere to
> disable this behavior if you don't like it.
> 
actually, i would be more interested in the behavior "expanding" into
what the visual message is, especially since it already tells me how
many tasks are in the individual lists there.

try to erase what you know about widgets and their behavior and look at
those things.  doesn't make you think that you should be able to make
them larger by grabbing the marked corner?

i would be more interested in enabling the look than disabling it.

thanks for the quick response!
carol


> FYI: xfterm4 is just a wrapper script that runs your preferred terminal
> emulator (whatever's in the TERMCMD environment variable).
> 
> 	-brian
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