Bug 375684

Hi,

the app status indicators in the icon-only task manager of Plasma are really hard to distinguish.

When an app is launched, there is a very faint bar next to the icon, which is supposed to indicate that the app is running without the window being on top. This bar is really hard to see.

Once a window is on top, this bar will change to a faint dark blue color, indicating that the window is on top, which is still not really good to see.

When hovering over an app which is not running, the icon of the app is lighting up. When hovering over an app which is running, the icon is lighting up and there's a blue colored rectangle around the icon.

I know you said you don't care what MS Windows is doing, but Windows 10 is doing a better job at this.

Windows 10 is doing it like this:

When an app is not running, there is no indicator, there's only the icon. When hovering over that icon, theres a faint gray rectangle around the icon, indicating that the cursor is hovering over it.

When an app is running, there's a blue bar next to the icon, regardless of the window being on top or not. That way it's much easier to see which apps are running.

When the window of an app is on top, a bright gray rectangle is being drawn around the icon to highlight that this is the currently active window.

All in all, it feels a lot better to navigate the icon-only task manager of Windows 10 compared to the icon-only task manager of Plasma, due to the reasons mentioned above.

Any chance you could do something about that?

Regards