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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-23 00:27, Michael Natterer wrote:
> For the record,
>
> GNOME also uses the icon, both in alt-tab view and in the taskbar
> that some people claim doesn't exist, or is it a sidebar? Anyway,
> the thing that appears in overview mode.

Some people seem to understand opposite things from what you are saying. 
Are you saying GNOME uses the Wilber icon, or that it uses the thumbnail 
in place of an icon?
Because I also use GNOME 3 (3.16.2) and I never saw any thumbnail-icons 
of GIMP, whether in alt-tab or in the dock in the overview.

Jehan

> --Mitch
>
> On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 23:25 +0200, Jehan wrote:
> > 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.
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