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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-22 22:34, Ofnuts wrote:
> 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.

I am not throwing any baby with any water. I am on the contrary seeking 
feedbacks. So thank for this, since you are the first person (finally!) 
whose experience is opposite to all the other feedbacks we got until 
now.

Jehan

> > 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.
>
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