The default task bar Plasma applet ("tasks") has a very irritating
behavior with minimized windows. When a window is minimized, its task
bar entry and icon are given a grayscale and transparency effect. See
screenshots [1] and [2].Although this may sound like a good idea in theory, it's terrible for usability in practice. I struggle to find minimized windows from my task bar on a daily basis because of this. At a pixel size of 16x16 color is an extremely important element of application icons. It's essential for recognition. I find myself trying to avoid minimizing windows completely. There is a bug tracker issue for this at [3]. Please reconsider this behavior. It has very little utility yet it causes many issues. This undesirable behavior was introduced in commit 8b5d78dd4213eb110a156fd73a7ca9323afb6f2d. [1] Ordinary window: http://veetipaananen.fi/files/screenshots/1369126208.png [2] Minimized window: http://veetipaananen.fi/files/screenshots/1369126167.png [3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311991 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
