On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 15:40 +0200, Jehan wrote: > 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.
I meant the thumbnail, sorry. My general opinion about this is that this looks like the rare case where a prefs setting makes sense: There seem to be two classes of desktop enviromnents: those which show a panel/taskbar/foo icon per window, and these use the thumbnail; and those which show an icon per application, and these use the icon. Then there is two types of users: those who find the thumbnail weird, and those who find it helpful. I think a simple "Use Image Thumbnail as Window Icon" boolean toggle should IMO work just fine, but we definitely should 1. render the thumbnail always as a square (padded with transparency) because at least GNOME distorts the thumbnail to be a square. 2. overlay a wilber icon if we render a thumbnail to make the window icon recognizable as "GIMP Window". --Mitch > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gimp-gui-list mailing list > > > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-gui-list mailing list > > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list
