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

[aryeom girinstud io]

Hello,

On 2015-10-14 16:28, Jehan 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
>
> 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?
I agree with the others, I also it isn't nessasary to make thumbnails.
But, if someone doesn't use gnome 3 and who doesn't use single mode, 
they maybe still need it.

Aryeom

> Jehan
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