Why grayed out icons in the Task List?

[Adam B]

Everybody interacts with the computer differently.  I usually iconify
windows merely to get to the other windows behind it.  So, for me,
iconifying does not mean I've lost interest in the window.

Being that most other parts of XFCE are highly configurable, having a
checkbox for this seems reasonable.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Adam B<cruxic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 I noticed a change in the Task List and
> task
> > pager (ctrl+tab).  Minimized applications have a faded/grayed icon.  See
> > here:
> >
> http://members.fortunecity.com/cruxic/files/xfce-faded-minimized-window-icons.jpg
> >
> > I was wondering if there's a way to disable this behavior?  It makes it
> > harder for my eyes to quickly find the application of interest.
>
> That's two different things. The taskbar comes with the panel (and is
> handled by libwnck), the alt-tab is from the window manager.
>
> The iconified apps in the window manager appears greyed out on
> purpose, to quickly identify those which are actually iconified as
> opposed to those still visible.
>
> The rationale behind this is that I usually tend to iconify windows
> that I use less often, so it helps me to identify when cycling between
> windows which one are still visible and therefor more likely to be of
> interest. I have no plan nor desire to make that optional.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
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