Iconbox Purpose?

Jack Coates jack at monkeynoodle.org
Sat Sep 11 22:16:24 CEST 2004


>    While we've used Xfce-4 on the portables for a while, I'm still puzzled
> about the intended purpose of the icon box. Unlike prior versions of xfce
> which placed icons on the root window only for mimimized windows (and
> where
> each icon had a descriptive image that indicated the application crushed
> inside), this one seems to me to have no practical function.
>
>    Each opened window adds a square to the tar, and they all look alike:
> three blocks: red, orange and white. They are not diffeneiated. Clicking
> on
> one moves it from its original desktop to the current desktop rather than
> transferring the view to that location.
>

There should be a meaningful icon, if the application provides one via the
standard ways.


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