Iconbox Purpose?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:08:32AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 
> >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$ .
> 
> Philip,
> 
>   I agree that the taskbar is rather useless -- for me. However, so is the
> iconbox when an application has not been minimized.
> 
>   Perhaps I just don't get the underlying philosophy and design basis. Seems
> to me that when I have the panel available both the taskbar and iconbox are
> redundant. I prefer the panel. I move from app to app by chaning from one
> virtual desktop to another. It is only when I have two similar applications
> open on the same virtual desktop (e.g., LyX and OpenOffice.org Writer) that
> I will minimize the one not being used at the moment. That's when I want the
> icon of the minimized application off to one side. Otherwise, it's
> unnecessary clutter for me.
> 
I use a Sun at work and Linux with xfce at home.  On the Sun I have
CDE set up so that minimised applications become *text only* boxes.  I
use a lot of rxvt terminal windows and simply start them with a
'-title <title>' option and this appears on the minimised text boxes.

I have to say that icons are the most useless invention ever to invade
the computer world!

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)

    "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."