Issue 72925 in chromium: Use favicon as taskbar icon
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New issue 72925 by christop...@googlemail.com: Use favicon as taskbar icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
Chrome Version : 9.0.597.98 (Offizieller Build 74359)
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Firefox 3.x: FAIL
Konqueror: OK
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a page with a favicon
What is the expected result?
The icon of the google-chrome application changes to the favicon
What happens instead?
The icon remains the google-chrome icon.
Please provide any additional information below:
Google Chrome should replace it's own icon with the current favicon such
that the current page is more easily visible in the taskbar. As far as I
know konqueror is the only browser that does it right.
chro...@googlecode.com
Labels: -Type-Bug -Area-Undefined Type-Feature Area-UI
Feature-OSIntegration OS-Linux
Comment #1 on issue 72925 by stuart...@chromium.org: Use favicon as
taskbar icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
(No comment was entered for this change.)
chro...@googlecode.com
Comment #3 on issue 72925 by christop...@googlemail.com: Use favicon as
taskbar icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
Is there a reason not to want it? It will increase usability by identifing
the current page more easily in the task bar. If one has more chrome
windows open there is no need to read the title.
chro...@googlecode.com
Comment #8 on issue 72925 by mixsy...@gmail.com: Use favicon as taskbar icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
I'd like to request a review of the status of this issue because I believe
there is confusion over the distinction between *program* icons and
*window* icons.
Windows, at least, distinguishes between *program* icons, i.e.
the 'umbrella' icon for the program that 'owns' the windows, and *window*
icons, i.e. the icons relating to the windows that match their title text
to provide a visual clue of what they are, similar to the Chrome tab bar.
For example, if a Windows Explorer window is open showing the Desktop, the
title text is "Desktop" and and the icon next to that is the Desktop icon,
not the Windows Explorer icon. To make clear which program is running the
window, the icon on the taskbar under which the window is shown is still
the Windows Explorer *program* icon.
So, therefore, you don't need each *window*'s icon to remain the Chrome
icon because the OS knows they're Chrome windows and presents them to the
user as such under the Chrome *program* icon in the taskbar to allow them
to refocus their browser.
It's true that tab selection is a temporary thing, but if you already use
the currently selected tab's title text as an identifier, you should use
its associated favicon as well just as in the tab bar, since, as explained
above, windows are already grouped by program by the OS.
See attached screenshots of how it looks now and how it should look.
Attachments:
chrome-win7-taskbar-with-favicons.jpg 72.9 KB
chrome-win7-taskbar-without-favicons.jpg 72.9 KB
chro...@googlecode.com
Comment #9 on issue 72925 by christop...@gmail.com: Use favicon as taskbar
icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
Look at the attached picture to see how it should look like. Chrome does it
wrong and konqueror right next to it makes it right.
Attachments:
taskbar-icon.png 511 KB
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Comment #10 on issue 72925 by eminakbu...@gmail.com: Use favicon as taskbar
icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72925
I open tons of browser window and all appear as Chrome. Tabs show the right
favicons, why these windows do not show the favicon of active tab? It's not
so hard to implement...