Bug 162943

Summary:	Taskbar Thumbnail not working
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Bobby <bobby.culture>
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	james, l.lunak, per.angstrom, sebas
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Bobby 2008-05-31 13:22:32 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          GCC 4.2-24 
OS:                Linux

The taskbar thumbnail (Kwin compositing effect) is not working although it's activated and the other 3D effects seem to be okay.
I am using an nVidia GeForce 6600 LE card with driver version 169.12.

Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2008-05-31 16:06:51 UTC

*** Bug 162908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-05-31 16:08:24 UTC

I'm not aware of any change in KWin and this used to work, so I except this got broken in Plasma.

Comment 3 Adria 2008-07-01 19:33:37 UTC

I confirm this issue: I have an nVidia 7500 LE and I don't get the taskbar thumbnails, whereas the other effects seem to work well

Comment 4 Alex Merry 2008-07-05 13:24:16 UTC

Tooltips are currently disabled in 4.1/trunk.  The thumbnails are contained in the tooltips, so there are no thumbnails either.

Comment 5 Bobby 2008-07-07 09:57:02 UTC

Am Samstag, 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Alex Merry:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]

Does that mean that they will be enabled at a later date but before release?

Comment 6 Sebastian Sauer 2008-07-07 16:20:16 UTC

hi Bobby, not for 4.1 since we are in feature-freeze mode and only fix crave bugs now (iirc there was even a bugreport that was reporting performance-problems with thumbnails enabled. So by enabling them again we would probably introduce new problems). But I assume they will reappear at 4.2
(though that's only a guess from me :)

Comment 7 Bobby 2008-07-08 08:51:46 UTC

Am Montag, 7. Juli 2008 schrieb Sebastian Sauer:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]

This wasn't a new feature at all so I can't understand why it won't be 
included since it should rather be classified as a fix. Please don't 
understand my statement as an accusation but the performance problem caused 
by enabled thumbnail was known since 4.0, which was shipped 6 months ago.
I can use compiz-fusion yes, but it's not the same as using native KWin 
effects.
Of course I am happy for the performance boast, for folder view, the other new 
features and above all for a very stable plasma, which I am sure was a lot of 
work but there is still a tiny amount of disappointment that some nice little 
things are still missing.
I promise to be patent and faithful though ;)

Comment 8 Sebastian Kügler 2008-11-18 03:27:49 UTC

Taskbar thumbnails are back in 4.2