I have just updated to 19.10 and I now see number of grouped windows in XFCE4 panel. This is unnecessary and ugly. The number also covers 75% of window icon area making it harder to see what is the application group about.
Please provide a way to turn this off.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: xfce4-panel 4.14.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Nov 1 20:56:49 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-13 (2910 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-11-01 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2019-03-27T00:07:10.128435
Created attachment 8865
patch to add toggle for old behavior
commit 36bc57e035e0 ("tasklist: Draw grouped windows count indicator") (Bug 10844) changed the behavior for
window groups by displaying the window count in a cairo drawn indicator instead of showing the count
as part of the label.
I personally prefer the old behavior of showing the window count as a part of the label, so I have
written a patch to introduce a toggle to restore the old behavior. The patch is attached.