Right now, both XFCE and Gnome denote minimized windows in the taskbar by putting [brackets] around them. It would be better if there was a more immediately noticeable visual cue, like on KDE or Windows. There are currently two visual schemes, switched between by toggling the "Use flat buttons" checkbox in the Task List preferences. Current button state #1 (flat): Minimized: [Brackets] Background: Flat Foreground: Sunken Current button state #2 (older): Minimized: Raised, [Brackets] Background: Raised Forground: Sunken Thus, there are three available states for the taskbar buttons, but neither scheme uses all of them. Proposed button state (#3): Minimized: Flat Background: Raised Foreground: Sunken Just an idea. --James D
We have recently switch the development branch of the panel to use GNOME's libwnck for the tasklist and pager plugins. This means that to get these suggestions implemented you will have to contact the maintainer of this library, probably through GNOME's bugzilla. For our part I will therefore mark this report as WONTFIX.