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Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in Xfce

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  Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in  Xfce Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2017-03-26 14:30 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel  in Xfce Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 16:00 +0200

#179357 — Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in Xfce

My, that's a small, specific question I'm asking.

I'm running Icedove 1:45.8.0-2 (which is really Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-2) 
under Debian testing, with
Xfce 4.12.3 as my desktop environment. It works fine (modulo the fact 
that I don't like every tbird
design decision, but it works as designed), except for one very small 
thing: when I task-switch
using alt-tab, the icon for Thunderbird is the 
empty-white-window-with-blue-title-bar icon, which
I'm presuming is the default for "this program has not defined an icon". 
That's also the icon that
appears in the workspace indicator in the Xfce4 panel.

Is this a bug? Are others seeing this? It is not a huge deal, but it's 
annoying because I always
task-switch with alt-tab and finding Thunderbird is harder when it has a 
nondistinctive icon that
does not match the one in its button on the main Xfce panel.

Thanks.
-- 
Carl Fink          carl@finknetwork.com
Writing about thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate
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#179362 — Re: Thunderbird (OK, "Icedove") has no icon in task-switching panel in Xfce

On 3/26/17, Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> wrote:
> My, that's a small, specific question I'm asking.
>
> I'm running Icedove 1:45.8.0-2 (which is really Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-2)
> under Debian testing, with
> Xfce 4.12.3 as my desktop environment. It works fine (modulo the fact
> that I don't like every tbird
> design decision, but it works as designed), except for one very small
> thing: when I task-switch
> using alt-tab, the icon for Thunderbird is the
> empty-white-window-with-blue-title-bar icon, which
> I'm presuming is the default for "this program has not defined an icon".
> That's also the icon that
> appears in the workspace indicator in the Xfce4 panel.
>
> Is this a bug? Are others seeing this? It is not a huge deal, but it's
> annoying because I always
> task-switch with alt-tab and finding Thunderbird is harder when it has a
> nondistinctive icon that
> does not match the one in its button on the main Xfce panel.


Definitely an annoyance. At some point, I had a setup that had a BUNCH
of that, several different programs, going on. Within a couple
updates, it appeared to be addressed by developers.

Speaking firsthand: Accessibility wise, it's cognitively related to a
program's usability.

If this was me, I'd track down where the icons should be, and see if
there's some way to send in a patch so the developers don't have to do
this in addition to the serious coding.

No, I don't know where to look just this second. I started to try to
do the same back when I encountered it, but never got through the
process to be able to suggest where to start and finish......

Good luck if you try to help with it..

Cindy :)

-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with duct tape *

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