Iconbox Purpose?

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

040911 Jack Coates wrote:
> to X these are all the same application (the terminal emulator),
> so they all get the same icon.
> People have asked for the ability to assign an icon,
> but it's always been shot down as a non-standard extension.

sorry, but wasn't there a decision in the last couple of days
to add the ability to assign such icons in 4.2 ?  mb it was on 'dev'.
there sb a tooltip to identify the app, if you put the mouse over the icon.

as for the original question, what is the purpose of the icon box,
those of us who use it see it as a much simpler alterative to the taskbar,
which looks altogether too much like KDE or (worse) M$ .

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