Closed Bug 31320 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

[RFE] Pref to only show one Navigator icon on windows taskbar

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

x86
Windows 95
enhancement

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: ian, Unassigned)

Details

This would also affect other platforms which support some form of toolbar to switch tasks, so I have set OS/Platform to All. Currently in Navigator 4 I can have many windows open, so many that the buttons on the taskbar are too small to read (The have been known to get down to just the ships wheel icon). My request is that all windows in mozilla are shown by just one button on the taskbar. Clicking on this will show the most recently used window, and windows can then be switched using the "Open Windows" or "Tasks" menus. I would suggest adding a tick option to either both these menus, or the View menu reading something like "Show all open windows on taskbar".
switching from architecture product to Browser
Assignee: endico → trudelle
Component: Misc → XP Toolkit/Widgets
Product: Architecture → Browser
QA Contact: nobody → jrgm
Version: 5.0 → other
You mean the Windows taskbar, right? Is this reasonably possible? Do any other apps do it? In any case, no time for this sort of thing in current project. reassigning to nobody, putting on helpwanted radar.
Assignee: trudelle → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
Keywords: helpwanted
I think this is quite an easy thing to implement. It is already done with the preferances window. Select Edit > Preferances and a new mozilla window opens, yet it does not get a place on the taskbar but DOES get a place on Open Windows menu. All I want is to extend this to all windows.
I don't think this is easy to do, at least not on Windows. The reason the Prefs works is because it is a modal window. Top-level windows always have their own icon on the Window's taskbar.
Prefs weren't always modal. And the PSM password prompt isn't modal at the moment (thats a bug, but still, it proves the point).
>>Top-level windows always have their own icon on the Window's taskbar Not true. it's part of the style flags for a window - it's easy to simply not enable a taskbar entry when the window is created (or anytime you have the hWnd). You do something else instead of WS_NORMAL. I think. But Windows XP groups taskbar icons from the same app anyway (a feature ripped straight from BeOS) ...
This has been fixed by the new(ish) Tabbed Browsing features. (Is RESOLVED FIXED the correct resolution, or should it be Duplicate or WFM?)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
No response, I am the reporter and the bug is fixed IMO.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Keywords: helpwanted
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