From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Some windows show icons in the window-list (gnome) while others don't. There should be a configuration option in the windowlist so that users can assign icons to specific applications if they like. Second, when one has a "alway group window" option enabled, the group no longer shows icons sometimes. For example, say I have 3 pdf's open in acroread. The acroread group shows the pdf icon; however, when I have multiple xemacs windows open, the xemacs group does not show xemacs icon (but simply a plain white blank icon). Note however, that when only a since xemacs window is open, the xemacs icon is shown correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.add window list to the gnome-panel 2.select "always group-windows" 3.open multiple xemacs, or xterm or acroread windows Additional info:
The bug here is that these applications don't display an icon, you need to log an individual bug against each of them. The solution is to fix the bug in each of the applications rather than a confusing "work around application bug" interface in the window list.
True, it is the responsibility of the application to display the icons. How about the icon for the group. Surely this is the gnome-panel's responsibility.