file type information as window property for grouping
Submitted by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Description
I dont really think metacity is the correct place to file this bug, but it's the only way i know of that i can file a bug with the wm spec :) (maybe libwnck would have been better, but this will most definately need to be supported at the wm level)
Grouping in the window list is sort of substandard from a usability perspective because it requires application association by the user. A better way to support this would be to group files by type. For example regardless of what text viewer i am viewing various text files with, they would all be grouped. This lets the user associate grouping with the type of files they are viewing, which is probably better/easier.
As a fallback we could always group by application.
I don't really know too much about the wm spec, so i'll leave the technical stuff to you. :)
note: I've brought this up on the hig list and as a short term solution i think we could just specify that document based applications should set their app name to "grouped 'file type'" etc. This hack would probably work for the mean time.