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

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:28:07 +0200
Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
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> 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.

> 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?



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