Op woensdag 05-05-2010 om 15:38 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Luke Benstead: > I've been giving this a lot of thought recently, well actually, I've > been irritated into giving it thought after not being able to find my > Rhythmbox window. I've been trying to work out why we have "minimize > to tray" functionality at all and all I can come up with is that it is > because the window-switcher applet is so horrible.
I think that "minimize to tray" is a horrible name based on a misconception. Personally I consider a music player as a background service, and the window where you can choose what music to play as a configuration window for it. In that way it's not very different from a network manager or power manager or other background services, except that maybe (depending on your listening habits) you change the configuration more often. And although I don't see the point in leaving unused (configuration) windows around for a background application like that, I still want to see a status indication and maybe "influence" that status or act on it, and that's what an app-indicator is supposed to do IMO. BTW: it seems like most of the app-indicators in lucid aren't all that useful, as they tend to indicate nothing and just offer a bunch of menu options. I hope those get fixed in maverick... ;) -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
