Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP shows a thumbnail in taskbar rather than its icon

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-14 16:51, Pat David wrote:
> I agree with showing Wilber all the time in situations where the
> visual will refer to a 'session' of GIMP (ie: single-window mode or
> grouping as mentioned in GNOME 3).  In single window mode it may make
> sense to keep the thumbnails for identification of particular image
> windows.

You mean multi-windows mode, no?

> In OSX Yosemite, wilber is shown when alt-tabbing or on the dock (even
> in multi-window mode).

Ok so OSX is same as GNOME 3 there.

Jehan

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:30 AM Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Right now, the GIMP icon in taskbar/alt-tab is either the Wilber
> > icon
> > when no image is opened or a thumbnail of the image otherwise.
> > A Windows user raised the issue that when there are a lot of
> > applications opened, it is difficult to find GIMP when it shows a
> > thumbnail and would propose to always show the Wilber icon.
> > Feature request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707932
> > [1]
> >
> > A recent proposition has been that we always show the Wilber icon
> > in
> > single window mode, and the thumbnails in multi-windows mode with
> > images
> > opened.
> >
> > Though at times I appreciated the idea of showing thumbnails,
> > nowadays I
> > am not sure anymore this is that much interesting. As users note,
> > it
> > makes it more difficult sometimes to find GIMP windows.
> >
> > Also I notice that in GNOME 3, there is no taskbar anymore, it
> > groups
> > windows per application (which means that alt-tab does not switch
> > between several GIMP windows anymore), and it always show the
> > application icon (whether in alt-tab or anywhere else).
> > I could not find any GNOME or FreeDesktop spec though with explicit
> > choices over program icons to show in various cases.
> > I wonder how things have evolved in other Operating Systems, like
> > Windows 10 and OSX. Any input?
> >
> > Moreover I think most alt-tab UI (or alt-~ in GNOME 3) would show
> > previews of the windows (bigger than small thumbnail icons) these
> > days,
> > no? So the icon thumbnail may appear even more useless or redundant
> > here.
> >
> > Does it still make sense to generate icon thumbnails?
> >
> > Jehan
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> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707932
> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list