Bug 248088

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

In KDE 3.* you could easily see which windows in the taskbar were minimized, which were in the background, and which were in the foreground. Since KDE 4 this is not possible. I have waited for this feature since upgrading to KDE 4.

It's the most important thing, where I still consider KDE 3 to be far superior to KDE 4.

I'll admit that the active window has a blue outline in the task bar, but if you happen to have your mouse pointer over an inactive window (in the taskbar), you have two windows in the list with a blue outline...

What I want is to have it clearly visible which window is in which state  (maybe as an option).

I have the taskbar set to:
NOT group windows.
Show windows from only the current virtual desktop.
Show both minimized and active windows.

I use focus-follows-mouse, but I don't think this is important.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open a few windows. For example firefox and three terminal windows.
Let firefox cover the whole screen.
Minimize one of the windows, and move firefox in front of the other windows.
Try to guess which of the windows in the taskbar is the minimized one.

Another way:
Start four terminal windows.
Maximize all of them.
Write something in all of them to recognize them, for example write one, two, three and four at the command prompt.
Let a friend reorder things for you. Move the windows to the background and foreground. Minimize two.

Try to move the window in the background in front of the window in the foreground by clicking on the right button in the task bar.

Not easy!


Actual Results:  
Pure guesswork. You'll never know which window is which.

Try the same exercise with 20 terminal windows..

Expected Results:  
Easy to locate which window is minimized and which are in the background.