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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-14 17:19, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:28:07 +0200
> Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
> [...]
> > Also I notice that in GNOME 3, there is no taskbar anymore,
>
> It's available as an extension...
>
> > it groups
> > windows per application (which means that alt-tab does not switch
> > between several GIMP windows anymore),
>
> There are extensions to change that, too...
>
> > and it always show the
> > application icon (whether in alt-tab or anywhere else).
>
> For me I see the image thumbnail both in the window list bar at the
> bottom of the screen and in alt-tab.

Ok, probably thanks to the extension.
Then the question is: do you feel it helps or make GIMP more usable to 
have the thumbnail show there instead of the Wilber icon? Or oppositely 
is it a bother?

Jehan

> > 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?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Does it still make sense to generate icon thumbnails?
>
> There's a performance improvement for larger images if we don't,
> unless the user has the active image thumbnail shown on the toolbox.
> But maybe they are also needed for the undo history?