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.
--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. > _______________________________________________ > gimp-gui-list mailing list > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list
