![]() ![]() So thumbnails can be good to distinguish the image windows here. One can also notice that it shows every windows, even toolbox and docks (oppositely to GNOME or KDE for instance who have a concept of main windows and don't display anymore docks/toolbox by default). OpenBox shows the thumbnails and keep the right ratio. One can also notice in the above screenshots how distorted and ugly they end up.Īlt-Tab in Openbox (3.6.3) with images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode): ![]() KDE Plasma has a similar behavior to GNOME 3, showing its own bigger thumbnails with the right ratio, except that it also use GIMP's generated thumbnail-icons. Screenshot showing that thumbnails are also used as icons in the taskbar (not sure why my own tests were not showing these): 5.4.1) with images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode):Īlt-tab in KDE Plasma with no images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode): There exists various plugins to change behavior of GNOME, thus in some case the generated thumbnail-icon may appear.Ĭinammon uses the same system as GNOME 3 for alt-tab (probably even sharing code).Īlt-tab in KDE Plasma (v. Moreover it will display both in Alt-Tab and in the activities mode its own Thumbnail of the whole GIMP windows, in bigger size than our thumbnail-icon (hence more visible) and keeping the correct aspect ratio.Īlternative alt-tab in GNOME-3 and the AlternateTab plugin, with images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode): GNOME 3 does not use the generated icon by default and always use the software Wilber icon. 3.16.2) with images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode):Īlt-tab in GNOME-3 with no images opened in GIMP (multi-windows mode): Study of Common Nowaydays desktops GNOME 3Īlt-tab in GNOME-3 (v. The image changing often (hence the thumbnail), it creates no consistent reference in the user memory, who therefore always have to search GIMP windows.This happens for instance in KDE which seems to force icons to some square format. The thumbnail icon can end up a distorted version of the origin image (which would rarely have the same aspect ratio), which makes it quite ugly.The thumbnail-icon is anyway so small that it is not quite sure how much of a "retrieval" interest it has, even with many images opened in GIMP (which goes against even the original goal).When a user opens a lot of non-GIMP windows, it makes it hard to retrieve the GIMP windows, whereas the Wilber icon is a consistent and known way of identifying GIMP immediately.This feature has likely been created for easily retrieve a GIMP image window, especially when several are being used. This icon is normally used in a task bar, through alt-tab or other means provided by a given desktop to retrieve open programs. ![]() without desktop)Ĭurrent GIMP provides the "Wilber" icon to the underlying desktop when there are no image, and a thumbnail of the opened image otherwise. ![]()
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