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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-22 22:45, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 04:02 PM, Jehan wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I am missing a discussion of various situations
> a user might find themselves in on their systems, when they have to
> navigate to a specific image (or a few specific images) they have 
> opened
> in GIMP.

Well… isn't the discussion you are "missing" exactly what we are doing 
right now?
Aren't we gathering the various situations in the various OS/desktops/WM 
with various users using one or the other window mode right now?…

> I'm using Xfce and Windows 7, and I rely on the thumbnails to find the
> images I'm looking for.

Ok, I just tested XFCE 
(http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Image:Xfce-alt-tab-gimp.jpg). It indeed 
seems the only OS/desktop tested until now with a concept of taskbar 
using the generated thumbnail-icons (well Windows too according to the 
bug report, though the person under Windows 7 who tested for me this 
morning and sent me my screenshot had no thumbnail in the taskbar, so 
I'm a little lost here).
The alt-tab also uses it, which is redundant with XFCE own thumbnailing 
in alt-tab.

So yes the taskbar in XFCE (and Win?) seems one of the only case up to 
now where the thumbnail seems useful.

Jehan

> P.S.
> GNOME abandoning the taskbar concept is one of my reasons to not use
> that DE anymore.