| Summary: | With Icons-Only Task Manager, open applications are hard to distinguish | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager | Assignee: | Eike Hein <hein> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bugseforuns, plasma-bugs, simonandric5 |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | nate:
Usability+
nate: VisualDesign+ |
| Version: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354928 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: |
Status quo
Proposed change |
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Created attachment 107654 [details]
Proposed change
The fixed state displayed in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354928 seems perfect! It looks like we moved away from that in the last 2 years, but I think we should reconsider. Using colors in the background was ideal and very clear. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370465 *** |
Created attachment 107653 [details] Status quo With an Icons-Only Task Manager, running programs are distinguished with a light gray line that changes to light blue for the active program. This is an extremely subtle visual effect that strains the eyes to look for, and doesn't provide at-a-glance indication of which programs are running. A less subtle effect may be beneficial here to. A more obvious but still acceptably visually pleasing effect would be to instead of drawing a thin colored line, use that same color for the background behind the program's icon (this would require using a different effect for when all of all of a program's icons are minimized). I've attached two screenshots: one that shows the status quo, and another that shows a mockup of the proposal.