https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441312
--- Comment #12 from Manuel Geißer <geisse...@gmail.com> --- Well, obviously I disagree very much. > Without relatively big icons, the whole overview effect will become useless > for me. *With* icons it becomes useless. The purpose of an overview effect is to quickly recognise open applications by their content, by what they look like. Icons don't tell you anything about what the window is for, what work you want to do in there. Icons don't help at all to get an overview, to see what is going on in different windows. > my first search is for the icon, the second one is for the miniature If the icon/text overlay is over-large / centered, it gets too difficult identify and memorise the content, which is the primary purpose of Overview. Icons-based app management is already available with the task bar. Icons are used just about everywhere and I tend to find them disgusting because they usually have very little logical connection to what the app actually does. > So if the new overview effect lacked of those, IT WOULD BE A MAJOR REGRESSION > and you would get flowed with bug reports, at least from persons who use > overview effect. To be clear, removing these annoying overlays would be an IMPROVEMENT and a nice step towards clean, usable code without non-features. > If I see only miniatures and I can't filter out anything, it's like a > spinning carousel and I can't make heads of tails of what I see. It takes too > long to recognize anything, and the whole effect would be useless. Absolutely not. With the visual pattern the whole window makes up, it's very nice to identify, and you can see what is going on inside the window, compare windows, watch windows simultaneously, etc. In contrast, icons are way too generic. Overview is about *specific open windows*, not about the app in general. > So the icons are a must, even with multiple instances. No. Really no. They just make it harder to distinguish multiple instances and hide relevant content. They're nothing more than an annoyance. > Will the current options be upheld in the new version? I see no reasons why > wouldn't they be. Believe me, I see many, many good reasons. > Also, the current default icons+titles is a reasonable one IMO. I would rather think about whether it is worth the effort being implemented at all (especially with Overview being in such an early beta stage), but most clearly icons+titles shouln't be the default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
