Windows 11 taskbar with Rhino and Grasshopper

so… bad? :see_no_evil_monkey:

.. yes! But that means slowing down a lot.
I’m surprised someone even trying to make me see this as “good”:

But, see my first post.

  • I have multiple (6 at minimum, but often more) instances of Rhino with Grasshopper open.
  • All Rhino instances have no file open, no geometry visible
  • Rhino instances cannot be sorted (this is possible with 3rd party tools…)
  • Minimizing a Rhino instance will result in the Grasshopper windows disappear from the task bar too! So you can no longer see it in any place, hovering included.
  • Reopening a minimized Rhino Instance will make the Grasshopper window reappear as the last (right) position in the task bar
  • all of my .gh scripts are similar so even the little image doesn’t help. And creating some scribble for that is not good too, because often i’m in a different place of the huge canvas.
  • grasshopper window name always start with "Grasshopper - " making it impossible to read the name of the actual file.

Microsoft made the usual reoccuring trash with the UI on Windows 11. No need of denying this or hiding this.
On W10 it was better and with some tool you could make it really productive.

I’m not here to move the blame from Microsoft to McNeel , but … is McNeel trying to minimize the problems of the new Windows UI?
Making the grasshopper windows part of the Rhino instance instead of making a new element of the taskbar, imo, would be useful, like in windows 10. Currently it feels like a “whack a mole”.

If that is not possible, renaming the grasshopper window with the same, coherent, naming as Rhino: filename - program, instead of program - filename.
… and… give it the grasshopper icon, not the rhino one.