[REQUEST] Minimize Windows into Desktop Icons

[houston92]

On Monday 02 February 2004 06:59, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> -- Marek Turnovec <mat.konference at medik.cz> wrote
>
> (on Sunday, 01 February 2004, 04:10 PM +0100):
> > >> I'm sure people have requested this before, but I wanted to
> > >> let my desire be known.  Xfce3 (and CDE) allow me to minimize
> > >> windows into desktop icons that can be dragged around and
> > >> arranged by the user.  This was a really nice feature.  I
> > >> recently did an email survey within my company and found that
> > >> about 70% of the engineers here prefer desktop icons vs. using
> > >> a taskbar.
> > >>
> > >> Currently, there are a lot of companies moving from the
> > >> Solaris/CDE world into Linux because of the low cost and high
> > >> CPU performance. Please take these users into account (they
> > >> are a large group). Is this a feature that the designers would
> > >> consider re-introducing into Xfce 4 (or 5)?
> > >
> > > IIRC, this is being tinkered with. I think the problem is due
> > > to other programs claiming the desktop's window. Ok, so that's
> > > not a great explanation but you can find more discussions in
> > > the list's archives.
> > >
> > > For a simple fix, try using the Rox filer's pinboard feature.
> > > It will perform the functions you ask.
> >
> > You want icons on desktop for minimized programs, or icons as
> > launcher for something? As far as I remebmer, XFCE3 didn't have
> > icons for launch something on desktop. Only thing that XFCE3 had
> > was a ability to minimize running apps on desktop. This
> > functionality is still there, you can choose if you like taskbar
> > or icons - just look at the settings panel - I'm not at my XFCE
> > box at the moment...
I did not think this was written in xfce4.  I do not see the option to 
minimize applications to the desktop in any of the settings.  Where 
is this option?
> >
> > So - ROX is an irrelevant answer for original question. :-)
>
> Actually, it's not; ROX _can_ and does show minimized windows on
> its pinboard, if so configured. There's an option for it in the ROX
> Options dialog; it's been there for many months now. Clicking on an
> icon minimized in this way also takes you back to the workspace on
> which that application was originally minimized.