https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370465
Bug ID: 370465
Summary: window state is hard to tell by looking at the task
manager button
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.8.0
Platform: Archlinux Packages
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Task Manager
Assignee: h...@kde.org
Reporter: bugs.kde....@derflupp.e4ward.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
I am not sure, if this is an issue of the task manager plasmoid, the plasma
theme (currently, I am using Breeze), or both.
I find it rather difficult to tell the state of a window just by looking at its
task manager button. Consider the following visual representations:
* a hovered button has a blue background color and a glowing icon,
* the button of the active window has a blue background color,
* the buttons of non-minimized windows have a light gray background color,
* the buttons of minimized windows have a dark gray background color.
I have the following problems:
* A hovered button always has the same visual representation, disregarding the
state of the window completely. This implies, that the visual representation
does not change after clicking the button, while the actual state of the window
does change. I often click task bar buttons repeatedly, because I do not see a
change of the button and the related window is in another corner of another
monitor and therefore out of my field of view.
* It is not intuitively clear to me, that a dark gray button represents a
minimized window. Especially, if there is exactly one minimized window and no
active window.
Reproducible: Always
Expected Results:
The state of a window should always be intuitively represented by the task
manager button, especially while hovering a button.
I suggest, to indicate hovering only by glowing (maybe including the text). In
this way, the state of the window stays visible.
For minimized windows I suggest to dim the text and maybe also the icon,
similar to disabled GUI elements.
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