https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476794
--- Comment #7 from twistedturtle <hindred...@gmail.com> --- > The Icons-only Task Manager intentionally always shows the app icon, not any > custom window icon the windows are showing. Seems like an odd choice...I would think that showing the window icon in the list of windows (that pops up when you hover over the app icon) would be preferable for most. It could be configurable, so if it's a bit slow in some cases, people can choose. Obviously, people expect the window icon to be used when the windows are not grouped. > The mode to disable grouping breaks the paradigm of what the Icons-Only Task > Manager is trying to do (show apps, not windows), Perhaps you've explained poorly, or I've misunderstood, but I think you need to re-assess your paradigm. 1. It doesn't "show apps, not windows"...it shows windows grouped by app. 2. The paradigm only applies to one "mode" and we're talking about another. 3. Showing the window icon for windows, where applicable, fits the group-windows-by-app paradigm, just as well as the don't-group-windows paradigm. You just put the icon in a different place...or not, in KDE's case. As you put it, un-grouped is another mode...it's just poorly implemented because the focus is on the vision of the grouped mode (you've said as much). Though nothing so far tells us why you think that using the wrong icons is acceptable, or why it's difficult to use the proper icons. You've only said that it doesn't fit someone's idea of how it should work. Perhaps there are other, better, reasons that haven't been identified... >but people really wanted that, so here we are. That's the point, not everyone wants windows grouped by app. You realised this, and implemented something. Great, but why not do it right? > This does lead to inconsistency when the window shows a custom icon, but such > is life. :) What's stopping you from checking if there's a custom icon and using it appropriately? The lack of doing that is what leads to the inconsistency. Mate uses the window icon whether it's grouped or not. Admittedly the group uses the icon of the last window to open, not ideal but I could live with that if I used groups. Apparently, even windows can do it right: https://forum.kicad.info/t/taskbar-icons-of-different-kicad-windows-win10-vs-linux/38287 So far, it just sounds like a bad design decision...but such is life I suppose. ;) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
