A little while ago on the Aqua-Soft forums Andrew (the author of the widget application Kapsules) started development on a little application named Mint. Mint was an application that would intercept the minimizing of applications to the taskbar and instead minimize them to the desktop. However to make it cool, the icon representation of the application on the desktop is a scaled version of a screenshot of the window for the application. Unfortunately for certain legal reasons, he was unable to release the application. To follow the development and progression of Mint, you can read this thread on the Aqua-soft forum.

Dissapointed in the loss of Mint to the internet community, I decided to see if my limited programming skills would provide me with the ability to write a Mint clone. And so far things are looking good. The current build of Deskcon captures the thumbnails of minizing applications. It also minimizes them to the desktop, providing the destop thumbnails with tooltips and system menus, as well as restoring the windows on double click. It has a few bugs and is currently in an early alpha, but if you're keen to test it, let me know.

Oh, and the name Deskcon is only an early internal development name becuase I needed one to start my project and couldn't think of anything better. It will change.