On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 18:01 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > The windows are marked as utility by default, so the window manager or > environment should handle hiding it from the taskbar.
It doesn't always, and that's really the problem. avant-window-navigator is an example: it ignores skip taskbar windows but not utility windows. I even asked their devs about it, and basically they said the application should set skip taskbar itself -- the opposite of what you suggest! What I see here is two groups pointing fingers at each other, which solves exactly nothing. While it's certainly possible (with a sufficiently sophisticated window manager, like Compiz) to forcibly add skip taskbar to all utility windows, not every user of Gimp is likely to know how to do this. Not every window manager is capable of doing this, either; I don't seem to remember Metacity having any way of changing window manager hints like that.
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