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With grouping disabled, show labels only when multiple app instances are open
Following image describes it the best:
Since Chrome, Explorer and Notepad++ have only one open instance their label is hidden. Since Opera has two open instances the label of each instance is visible.
To me, it would have many benefits:
- Single instances labels would be hidden because in most cases they are quite useless, saving some of the taskbar space
- Multiple instances labels would be shown, allowing user to distinguish each instance. As a result, user would instantly know in which instance he/she is switching to
- User would have permanent overview of what is open (no combining)
Similar behavior can be currently achieved by following settings:
- In Windows Taskbar settings:
- Never show labels
- In 7+ Taskbar Tweaker:
- Group by Application ID
- Combine grouped buttons
- Decombine active group
- Decombine on mouse hover
- ... and show labels
With these settings, labels are always hidden and multiple instances are grouped and combined. If you hover over a group, it becomes decombined while all the labels are shown.
However it doesn't satisfy my needs as it has few major disadvantages:
- When switching windows you have to first focus on group you are switching to and hover over it, then you have to refocus and select particular window
- You don't have permanent overview of open windows
For the reasons mentioned above I would like to be able to apply following settings:
- In Windows Taskbar settings:
- Never show labels
- In 7+ Taskbar Tweaker:
- Don't group
- Don't combine grouped buttons
- Show labels when multiple app instances are open (new feature)
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For some reason, the spam filter marked this topic, and I noticed it only now by accident.
There's also the following suggestion which is similar:
https://tweaker.userecho.com/topics/273-possibility-to-always-expand-groups-with-more-than-1-item-and-show-their-labels