xfce with taskbar

[Michael Hipp]

On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:37 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> > A taskbar is the most uncluttered means yet to allow one-click random
> > access to your running apps. Clutter is when the app you want is hidden
> > behind 12 others and you can't get to it by any direct means.
>
> Nonsense.  Right click on the desktop, and you get a list of everything
> that is currently runing.

That assumes your desktop is showing. If you run lots of things maximized 
(or have the xterms stretched to max height) the desktop often isn't 
visible. So you start minimizing stuff till a patch of color shows but in 
any case you're back to the same problem.

Besides, the right-click list has the unfortunate feature of being sorted 
alphabetically rather than chronologically. So if you have 10 'Terminals' 
open, which one was it that has that man page in it that I need to 
reference. You can't tell. But with them on the taskbar, they are mentally 
referenced to the same geospatial place and they are organized according to 
which one you ran first. So you can easily figure out which is which 
without having to cycle through them a la alt-tab.

Xfce seems nigh perfect except for this one grievously missing feature.

Xfce even comes with a number of themes that look like they were designed by 
grown-ups rather than the stuff that comes with most WMs that look like the 
inside of Darth Vader's colon   :-D

Michael