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Bug 163575 - Window selector applet showing a "blank" icon between app icons
Window selector applet showing a "blank" icon between app icons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: selector
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-10 15:10 UTC by Vincent Noel
Modified: 2018-01-24 13:25 UTC
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Description Vincent Noel 2005-01-10 15:10:39 UTC 
When you switch application using the window selector applet, you can often see
a "blank" icon (the piece-of-paper icon) flash briefly in the applet just before
the new application sets in. This is visually distracting.

It is especially noticeable the first time you select an application, after that
the flashing is much faster and you cannot see it as well (some caching is
happening I guess).
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2005-01-25 19:24:04 UTC 
The Window Selector now uses the new WnckSelector widget from libwnck. Moving
bugs to libwnck.
Comment 2 Vincent Noel 2005-01-28 15:03:09 UTC 
Moving to the right component. Sorry for the spam.
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2005-02-02 20:32:18 UTC 
Vincent: is this happening with metacity HEAD?
Comment 4 Vincent Noel 2005-02-02 20:41:54 UTC 
Yup.
Actually now it's not the piece-of-paper icon that flashes, but the new
icon-for-applications-without-icon (ie the symbolic window thing).
Comment 5 Vincent Noel 2005-02-02 20:43:02 UTC 
Note that the icon only appears for a very short while. I can trigger it easier
with epiphany, but the more you switch your windows, the harder it is to see the
bug.
Comment 6 Elijah Newren 2005-02-02 21:51:18 UTC 
Related to bug 155867 and bug 160373/160660 at all?
Comment 7 Vincent Noel 2005-02-02 23:24:07 UTC 
Well the icon change mentioned in comment #4 is surely due to these two bugs
being fixed.
Apart from that, I can't see any relation. The present bug is not about the icon
itself, but the fact that this icon shows itself briefly in the window selector
applet during a window-switching operation (between the icons of the windows
being switched).
Comment 8 Vincent Noel 2005-07-25 17:53:06 UTC 
I still can trigger this bug.
Comment 9 Elijah Newren 2005-07-25 20:52:43 UTC 
I don't remember ever seeing it, though I don't look at or use the selector
much.  Hopefully someone else can track it down or I notice sometime. g *shrug*
Comment 10 Vincent Untz 2007-05-18 15:54:44 UTC 
I can see this happening very briefly when changing workspace (but not all the times). I guess that in this case, that's because it's not possible to activate a workspace *and* a window at the same time.
Comment 11 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 13:25:27 UTC 
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