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The primary motivation is to significantly reduce the number of task buttons on the task bar. Grouping alone doesn't address that.

The grouping of several tasks under a single button is a more powerful feature. To achieve this the TaskBarApp class must be split in a button class and an app...

@exebook mate-panel 1.24.0 doesn't seem to be willing to do grouping. Where do you configure that?

I just wanted to learn about good ideas from others. But maybe you can try the new `TaskBarTaskGrouping` and comment?

See this pic: 

Thanks for the feedback. Similar functionality is available in [WINDOW LIST](https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm#window-list).

I looked into adding tooltips to menu entries a long time ago. The problem then and now is that menus are popped up with a grab, i.e. they are modal....

Create a taskbuttonbg.xpm and keep ColorNormalTaskBarApp the same as ColorDefaultTaskBar.

Right, it is all we can do now.

That is a cool program! Maybe it is also useful for issue #382 ?