Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: doesn't matter doesn't matter If okular window is minimized (and thus becomes a button in the task bar), it is only its generic icon that is used on the button there. Leaving aside that that icon IMHO isn't very good usability-wise (it doesn't "stand out" in small sizes, looking very similar to some other very small icons too, being some kind of white/light-grey blotch only... no insult to the artist, though -- I'm only relaying my own personal impression to you): since okular is meant to be a universal viewer application, and users may have open different instances of okular with a different file type opened in each, they do have no quick access to each window by the use of distinguishing icons that reflect the currently displayed file type. The "old" KPDF icon is *very* well distinguishable even in the smallest sizes.
I'm not sure to agree here: changing the icon for PDFs would mean changing the icon for every file type okular supports. That would imply the user should learn and recognize all the icons used for the different document types? Even worse. Sticking to a single icon is better IMHO, a single icon for the user to learn and recognize.
It depends... AFAIK, there is already a well-known and well-recognizeable PDF mime type icons (dunno about .chm, .dvi, and all the other ones). In any case, you have to weigh your above consideration agains the case where okular has opened 2 or more different mime type documents. If you want to jump to a specific one ("I want to go back to the PDF document"), it is easier+faster if you click on the icon than to go through all the open oKular windows that all show the same icon....
> AFAIK, there is already a well-known and well-recognizeable PDF mime type icons (dunno about .chm, .dvi, and all the other ones). If the problem is the okular application icon or the PDF mime type icon, that's something for the artists, not for us. > In any case, you have to weigh your above consideration agains the case where okular has opened 2 or more different mime type documents. So instead of just know the okular icon, I have to know *all* the icons for the various document types supported by okular? And, btw, shipping a crystal icon among oxygen icons it's not something I want to do without asking to the artists first (that would strongly disagree for sure).
Hello there, How about setting this as an option for the user? S/he is the one who should judge whether using the same icon or a different icon for each file type is the practical thing.
Won't happen, sorry