I know this has been discussed before on the mailing list, but I forget the answer about it. I think it'd be really great and I'm pretty sure it wasn't mentioned as a feature request. Anyway, right now icons in the panel/taskbar/windowlist are defaulted, no matter the icon theme. Would it be possible for them to use the themed icons first and only go to the defaults as a fallback? That would be more consistent with the panel menu and all the other things that use the themed icons. For example, the menu shows icon X for a program, but when I click on the program, I don't see that icon. That seems counterintuitive. Any way of making this happen?
nope. the icon displayed in the taskbar/windowlist is set by the application itself at runtime. it's a pixmap, not a filename.
It just seems like it would be much better all around--e.g. no dumb box icon for default windows--if there could be some kind of override. But I would understand flat disapproval if there were some precedent for this; is this according to any specification?
Let me rephrase. If I load the Xfce Settings Manager (xfce-setting-show), the icon that shows up in the taskbar is from my specified GTK icon theme. If I load the Desktop or Panel settings, same thing. Any of the others bring up the default icon (i.e. from the hicolor theme). So it seems that the way the taskbar draws applications' icons could be done however the Desktop and Panel settings do it.
(In reply to comment #3) > Let me rephrase. If I load the Xfce Settings Manager (xfce-setting-show), the > icon that shows up in the taskbar is from my specified GTK icon theme. If I > load the Desktop or Panel settings, same thing. Any of the others bring up the > default icon (i.e. from the hicolor theme). > > So it seems that the way the taskbar draws applications' icons could be done > however the Desktop and Panel settings do it. I'm afraid this is not how the taskbar works. The taskbar draws the icon that the application sets. This is not an icon name that can be looked up in the icon theme, it is an actual pixmap to draw. The only way to handle this is to make the application use an icon from the icon theme; the panel and desktop settings dialogs do this. I don't see how this can be fixed.