xfdesktop has minimised app icons now!

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Sep 9 17:37:31 CEST 2005


Robert Robinson wrote:
> On 9/9/05, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
>>The features that are missing are:
>>
>>* handling screen size changes (via xrandr)
>>* handling gtk theme/font changes
>>* handling windows that change their title while minimised
>>* tooltips for full names
>>* DnD to move the icons around
>>* runtime option to turn them off
>>* not placing icons where there are struts (not sure how to do this)
>>
> 
> 
> What about thumbnailing the window on the desktop instead of
> displaying an Icon.  Having a bunch of programs with a default icon
> will be difficult, instead displaying a thumbnail of the program might
> be more useful

A bit heavy for a "simple solution". I think we could steal some code
from Skippy if required.

Benedikt



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