konqueror application icon - stopping it from being an 'imposter'

[David Faure]

On Friday 17 December 2004, David Lee wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> when using konquerer as a file manager, konquerer's application icon 
> changes to the application's icon u lauched. for example, my default 
> konquerer application icon is a blue folder icon, upon clicking a pdf 
> file in konquerer, konquerer's application icon changes into acrobat 
> reader icon.
> 
> this is very frustrating because, now i have 2 pdf icons on my taskbar. 
> one is acroread and the other is konquerer - the 'imposter'. this 
> prevents me from identifying konquerer in the taskbar quickly.
> 
> is there a way to remove this 'imposter' feature? other than turning off 
> "show application icon" completely from the control center (which will 
> make matter worst)?
> 
> sorry for using the word 'imposter', can't think of a nicer word...

OK, this must be the longest delay I ever had in answering an email (outside bugs.kde.org),
but no matter, I will do it nonetheless ;-)

The attached patch (for the kde3 version of konqueror, since this is an old email ;-)
does just that.
But that was the easy part. The difficult part is: what *should* konqueror do by default?

I have, too, been confused by the changing icon, e.g. when visiting kmail.kde.org
it looked like I had two kmail windows, since I could see the kmail icon twice...

On the other hand, being able to distinguish filemanagement windows from webbrowsing
windows is certainly a nice feature. Maybe that's a good compromise? For genericity
it could be a profile-defined icon.

Comments welcome.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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