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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-21 21:32, Jehan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-10-21 20:40, Elle Stone wrote:
> > On 10/21/2015 02:08 PM, Jehan wrote:
> > > Are there any multi-window mode users here who could tell us if they
> > > actually find useful/annoying/neutral to have a generated 
> > > thumbnail-icon
> > > instead of Wilber?
> >
> > I use MWM (well, everyone probably knows that by now :) ).
> >
> > I use IceWM as my "desktop". There's a narrow taskbar along the
> > bottom. It shows the Wilbur icon and some identifying text ("Toolbox",
> > the first few letters of the image name, etc) when GIMP is running.
> >
> > I've never seen a generated thumbnail, and if one were to appear it
> > would be too small to be of any use.
>
> Like GNOME then.
>
> > I usually have a lot of programs running at once, with icons on the
> > taskbar. Usually there are so many programs running that I don't
> > actually see any identifying text. So I depend on seeing the Wilbur
> > icon to know which windows are GIMP windows.
> >
> > If the Wilbur icon were replace with generated thumbnails, I'd
> > probably have a difficult time seeing at a glance which windows belong
> > to GIMP, and that would be annoying.
>
> In the wiki, there are 2 screenshots of desktop/WMs, KDE and Openbox,
> which use the generated thumbnail-icon:
> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Software_Icon_workgroup
> So you can have an idea of how well it represents an image.
>
> My feeling on the topic is that it looks actually helpful if you have
> nearly only GIMP opened (or very few other software windows) and that
> your desktop/WM show the toolbox and the docks (as it is apparently
> your case).
>
> But when you have a lot of windows opened, this becomes a nuisance.
> Moreover when the toolbox/docks are not presented in the list of
> windows (this is the case in KDE/GNOME/Cinnamon by default now, at
> least in my tests), the usefulness of showing thumbnails to separate
> docks from image windows is lessened too. You'd likely prefer to have
> the Wilber icon to separate your GIMP image windows from other
> programs (and bigger thumbnails generated by your desktop are a good
> plus as well).
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
> Nobody else?

I got someone make me a screenshot under Windows (7). That's the output:
http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Image:Screenshot-gimp-windows7.jpg

Even in single window mode, it looks very bothersome to me. You can see 
the chrome browser next to GIMP, which shows a proper icon making it 
very easy to recognize whereas GIMP shows a generated thumbnail-icon of 
the opened image. Moreover Windows 7 was already showing a bigger 
thumbnail of the whole GIMP window anyway.
Right now, the status is that some OS/desktop/window managers seem to 
never use the generated thumbnail-icon anyway, and the ones who use it 
would anyway also show their own thumbnail in better resolution.

At this point, I believe that the whole feature should be dropped, 
whatever mode one is in.
If anyone likes the feature (we have not had 1 single positive feedback 
until now), please make yourself heard now.

Jehan