Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31898 - in /libs/gui/trunk: ChangeLog Source/NSApplication.m

[Germán Arias]

It is planned to incorporate this into the next version, or will be left
for a later version?


On mar, 2011-01-25 at 01:18 -0500, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Wolfgang,
> 
> Yes, I'm sure.
> 
> Showing an app icon in those environments under any circumstance seems
> very wrong to me.   In Windows we don't show an app icon at all for
> any reason.  When an app is minimized or does not show any windows at
> all, there is stil an entry on the task bar for the application.   The
> same should happen for GNOME.  Currently it does not.
> 
> I believe I can make this work in a much more elegant way than showing
> the icon.
> 
> Later, GC
> 
> On Monday, January 24, 2011, Wolfgang Lux <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Author: gcasa
> > Date: Sun Jan 16 06:22:10 2011
> > New Revision: 31898
> >
> > URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep?rev=31898&view=rev
> > Log:
> >         * Source/NSApplication.m: Added overide for orderWindow:relativeTo:
> >         in NSIconWindow.  Check for GSSuppressAppIcon and order the window
> >         ONLY if the app icon window is supposed to be displayed, otherwise
> >         do not do anything with it.   I observed issues with this
> >         functionality while testing the GNOME theme the app icon would
> >         periodically show even when the default mentioned above was set to
> >         YES.
> >
> >
> > Are you sure about this patch? I know that the concept of app icons 
> > alienates people used to Windows and similar desktop environments 
> > (including GNOME and KDE). However as far as I recall the discussion about 
> > supporting such environments, the idea was to still present an app icon if 
> > the application has no visible main window.
> >
> > With your change, users can easily lock themselves out when the application 
> > is hidden (whether by selecting the hide item from the menu or by having 
> > another application issue a -hideOtherApplications: message).
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> 
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