It is planned to incorporate this into the next version, or will be left for a later version?
On mar, 2011-01-25 at 01:18 -0500, Gregory Casamento wrote: > Wolfgang, > > Yes, I'm sure. > > Showing an app icon in those environments under any circumstance seems > very wrong to me. In Windows we don't show an app icon at all for > any reason. When an app is minimized or does not show any windows at > all, there is stil an entry on the task bar for the application. The > same should happen for GNOME. Currently it does not. > > I believe I can make this work in a much more elegant way than showing > the icon. > > Later, GC > > On Monday, January 24, 2011, Wolfgang Lux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Author: gcasa > > Date: Sun Jan 16 06:22:10 2011 > > New Revision: 31898 > > > > URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep?rev=31898&view=rev > > Log: > > * Source/NSApplication.m: Added overide for orderWindow:relativeTo: > > in NSIconWindow. Check for GSSuppressAppIcon and order the window > > ONLY if the app icon window is supposed to be displayed, otherwise > > do not do anything with it. I observed issues with this > > functionality while testing the GNOME theme the app icon would > > periodically show even when the default mentioned above was set to > > YES. > > > > > > Are you sure about this patch? I know that the concept of app icons > > alienates people used to Windows and similar desktop environments > > (including GNOME and KDE). However as far as I recall the discussion about > > supporting such environments, the idea was to still present an app icon if > > the application has no visible main window. > > > > With your change, users can easily lock themselves out when the application > > is hidden (whether by selecting the hide item from the menu or by having > > another application issue a -hideOtherApplications: message). > > > > Wolfgang > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
