[plasmashell] [Bug 416225] Highlighting of inactive and minimized windows reversed in task manager plasmoid.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416225

rnddim at gmail.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|INTENTIONAL                 |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from rnddim at gmail.com ---
First of all, the bug linked seemed to mainly be complaining about a hovered
item not reflecting the activeness/minimizedness of the window, which I can
tell hasn't changed. I also strongly disagree with the notion that it was ever
hard to distinguish the state a window was in. If it was hard for some people,
that should be controlled by some accessibility option.

It's worth noting that I was confused in the linked reports about the talk of
"running applications" (as opposed to what?), but then I realized that that
might be distinguishing from pinned and not running applications. I don't have
anything pinned, so maybe the issue with distinguishing application states was
just with running vs. pinned applications, and that's why it's news to me?

In general, I don't mind the idea of changing the design; what I mind is that,
at least in the light Breeze theme, the change took designs that already have
established meanings, and repurposed them, thereby changing those meanings.
This leads to a more confusing task manager design.

I don't think reverting back would get more people upset. This new design has
only existed in 1 version of Plasma, while the old design has been seen for
every other version of Plasma 5.

Since you acknowledged that it looks better in icon-only mode (which I don't
use), maybe the solution is to acknowledge that there are different design
considerations between icon only and icon + text, and revert it for icon + text
only? Or perhaps, like I said, make it an accessibility feature (again, the
idea that it was difficult to tell window states is a surprise to me).

I don't really buy the idea that it would be hard to add a configuration
option. You could always make the task manager use the "wrong" SVGs depending
on the configuration, or "just" add more SVGs. My only concern with the
configuration option idea was that it would be too niche a concern to be worth
making configurable.

I will make sure to complain to the design group though, if this is gonna stay
"resolved". :)

Just to state again, I don't mind the changing of the design, especially to
make it easier for people to tell window states. I just mind that you did it by
making inactive windows look minimized and minimized windows look inactive.

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