GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 707932
Option to keep application icon fixed rather than showing thumbnail
Last modified: 2018-05-24 13:51:12 UTC
OS: Win7 Enterprise SP1, 32-bit build: 2013-09-10-stable darkrefraction nightly, with the workaround in bug 707653, comment 8. In the Windows taskbar (and system menu and alt-tab box), the GIMP icon is Wilber when no image is open, but a thumbnail when an image is open. Would it be possible to add an option so that the icon stays Wilber all the time and does not display a thumbnail? I have sometimes been tripped up trying to find GIMP on a crowded taskbar when I don't recall what image I was working with last. I believe an option to keep the icon fixed would help with that problem. Thank you for considering this request.
Well, Thanks for the feature request. I'd say that the nicer would be the thumbnail of the current image with a small Wilber above it? Then you still have the image information AND the "this is GIMP" information. But that's kind of a low priority change though in my opinion. In any case, I personally won't look for how this icon-changing is implemented right now. Maybe someone else will. :-) Yet I see how this can be annoying to lose the GIMP information in the taskbar/task switcher icons.
Yes, I realize this is not going to be high on the priority list :) . At least it's in the tracker now. Thumbnail+Wilber does sound like a cool option, but for my use case, I think I would still prefer just Wilber all the time.
Honestly I would be kind of reluctant to add an option for something as "irrelevant" as this. I mean, as I said in my previous message, I understand, so this is relevant. But this is not as relevant as big drawing features. Of course that could still go in the Preferences > Interface. It is just that we should be careful not to clutter preferences with too many "small detail features", in my opinion. That's why I proposed the variant "Wilber embedded in the thumbnail", so that everybody is happy (the ones who want Wilber, and the others who want a thumbnail), and we don't need a preference option. Anyway right now, that's just small talk. No idea if and when anyone would implement this! :-)
One possibility that came up on IRC is to make this a condition of SWM, so if you use SWM we keep the icon, and if you have (possibly) multiple windows, they get the thumbnail.
Hi, > One possibility that came up on IRC is to make this a condition of SWM, so if you use SWM we keep the icon, and if you have (possibly) multiple windows, they get the thumbnail. This is an interesting proposition. Now we have a GIMP design group to discuss GUI-related matters. I will raise this topic on the mailing list.
Since October, we have had a thumbnail overlaid with an outline Wilber. See: commit 19b984e1df485a38e7405831dd58c0b3cf91651d Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Date: Sun Oct 25 21:55:35 2015 +0100 app: fix the image window's thumbnail size and shape and render a wilber on top of it, yay! Step one, this can still be nicer... commit 917a63d189c232572a9a1a3ec20636f855ed51dc Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Date: Mon Oct 26 02:13:22 2015 +0100 app: move the image thumbnail bottom-left in the window icon the wilber is already to-right, it just needs better images for this purpose. commit 078b210b3e6993843c0b57047deb163e338ce10c Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Date: Mon Oct 26 08:11:57 2015 +0100 icons: add gimp-wilber-outline.png in large sizes for compositing the image window icon. By Guillermo Espertino. We forgot to update the bug report. Note though that it does not always work. For instance in GNOME, this thumbnail+Wilber icon is not meant to work on purpose. This is because GNOME is an application-based desktop environment, so it should always show the icon set in the desktop file (see bug 757434, comment 2). Other desktops which are windows-based (such as KDE, XFCE, etc.) will show our generated thumbnail+Wilber. I guess the only question still to be answered is whether we want to have an option for people who always want to see the default icon. I guess it could go in "Image Windows" > "Title & Status". After all, we already have window title customization. Why not the icon as well, indeed.
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