> Right. > > The reason for this is because applications don't provide high > resolution thumbnails in their _NET_WM_ICON property. So we have to > use the low-res one. I believe that KDE 4 applications provide hi-res > icons, and GNOME 3 actually matches the .desktop file to the > application. This is something that compiz might do in the future (at > least through an external plugin).
I have a worried thought in the back of my mind that says this should be provided by Unity, since Alt+Tab touches on the same territory of managing windows and applications that the launcher does. It feels a little odd to me that Unity is delegating core functionality to more generic user interfaces that (by design) have no knowledge of the fancy application matching it has been doing (or of Unity's particular look and feel). I would love some explanation of how the architecture works here :) Mutter, if I recall correctly, continues with Metacity's convention of storing a window thumbnail before it is minimized. Meanwhile, Gnome Shell's alt tab dialog doesn't show window icons. It shows application icons and window thumbnails. We could learn from them here: window icons are meaningless in Gnome Shell because they were removed from title bars at the same time. Here in Ubuntu, titlebars have been without window icons since their buttons were moved to the left. On this subject, I have been suggesting Alt+F1 as an alternative to Alt Tab for some people, and they've been pretty happy with it. Perhaps there are some ways that approach could be strengthened. -- Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
