Hi, thanks a lot for the revamped task manager window tumbnail previews and for having fixed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375668 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375669 with Plasma 5.9. There's one regression though: When having more than one instances of one app grouped together in one icon and then hovering over the icon, the window preview thumbnails show up. When then hovering over the thumbnails, there no longer is any visual clue for which thumbnail / window you're hovering over. In Plasma 5.8, there was a visual clue due to the close icon being shown when hovering over a certain thumbnail. With 5.9, the close icon is always present on all thumbnails. Could you please fix that? And could you possibly add some kind of additional highlighting over a thumbnail when hovering the cursor over it (i.e. changing the color of the frame around the thumbnail when hovering the cursor over it)? Regards
Confirmed.
I'm open for a proposal on how the thumbnail item should be highlighted on mouse over. It must be consistent with other forms of highlighting used in Plasma and also must not create a artificial divide design-wise between non-grouped and grouped thumbnails.
I don't get what the last paragraph means. Didn't you asked for additional highlighting in the paragraphs before already?
The earlier talk is about restoring the icon appearing on hover, the latter talk is about "and please go beyond that".
Roman, does comment #4 provide the requested information? Please set the bug status or add a comment.
How it was in the past (the visual clue by the close icon being shown), is in my opinion no appropriate visual clue for the mouse cursor position being over the task. A suddenly appearing kill button is not good UI. Therefore there is nothing to fix. But the "additional highlighting", i.e. some kind of real highlighting with our highlighting color (which is blue in Breeze), is a good idea. I'm not sure if a blue frame around the hovered task is the right solution but we could try something like this for sure.
I agree. An actual highlight is desirable, and would match the hover behavior of most other UI elements.
Yeah I guess we could slap a PlasmaComponents.Highlight around it like in lists.
There's an option in the icon-only task manager called "Highlight Windows". It's turned off by default. Enabling it gives the effect shown in this video. The transparency effects are my own settings. https://youtu.be/IMy6cPPvCiw (It's too large to upload as an attachment.) Is this sufficient to meet the request, or do we still want something more?
Created attachment 112885 [details] The bug No, that's something different. The issue here is that when multiple windows of an app are open and the *tooltip* shows multiple window previews, they don't get a highlight. See attached video.
Implemented in https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=bf22a4c7f99a5c7d9cde768224901a17844e55f8