Victor said: <snippet> One problem I find with pinning FH to the task bar is you have no idea if it was open or not. <snippet> When any pinned program is closed its Taskbar icon is small with NO highlighted border. When you hover the cursor on it you just get a small tooltip of its name. When any pinned program is open its Taskbar icon is wide with a highlighted border. When you hover the cursor on it you get thumbnails of all its open widows. It all looks very clear to me whether a program is open or not. Regards, Mike Tate
This all applies provided one hasn't changed the theme. Those of us who prefer a classic theme sacrifice these subtleties for the sake of also sacrificing clutter. :-) Bob On 26/11/2013 21:47, Beryl & Mike Tate wrote: > Victor said: > <snippet> > > When any pinned program is closed its Taskbar icon is small with NO highlighted border. > When you hover the cursor on it you just get a small tooltip of its name. > > When any pinned program is open its Taskbar icon is wide with a highlighted border. > When you hover the cursor on it you get thumbnails of all its open widows. > > It all looks very clear to me whether a program is open or not. > >
Bob said: <snippet> This all applies provided one hasn't changed the theme. Those of us who prefer a classic theme sacrifice these subtleties for the sake of also sacrificing clutter. <snippet> I tried Classic Theme and everything I described below remained essentially the same except the thumbnails became a small icon list. Regarding clutter, I found it worse because EVERY open Window has a Taskbar entry that clutters up the Taskbar. Whereas with the modern themes each Program only has one entry in the Taskbar but popup thumbnails for its open Windows, that to me is less cluttered. Regards, Mike Tate On 26/11/2013 21:47, Beryl & Mike Tate wrote: > Victor said: > <snippet> > > When any pinned program is closed its Taskbar icon is small with NO highlighted border. > When you hover the cursor on it you just get a small tooltip of its name. > > When any pinned program is open its Taskbar icon is wide with a highlighted border. > When you hover the cursor on it you get thumbnails of all its open widows. > > It all looks very clear to me whether a program is open or not. >