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

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 22/10/15 16:02, Jehan wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, but for me the bothersome application is Chrome... because if I 
have several Chrome instances, I cannot distinguish them (while i could 
if Chrome replaced its icon by the site's favicon, or even had distinct 
icon for its "open" and "private" modes)( Firefox has the same 
shortcomings). Currently, if I have several Gimp images open, I can 
identify them that way, however distorted they are, as long as they are 
different enough. And even in SWM, I could have several Gimp instances 
running... So let's not throw the baby with the bath water.

> 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.

So let's not throw away the baby with the bath water.