It's just weird to me that closing Noise doesn't have the same result as closing everything else. I understand what it's going for, I think I just don't have the workflow it expects or something. Let's see what design team says about your feedback.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Nishant Agrwal < nishantagrwal12...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you elaborate on why you didn't like it? > > Here's my rationale for proposing the closing/hiding behaviour: > I think the way most people use music players is - start the player, > choose the song, and close the window. Basically, the player window's only > functionality is to allow choosing the song and managing playlists, etc. So > throughout the application's use, the window remains largely unused. Also, > because Pantheon supports a multiple workspace layout, our users might be > in a different workspace from where they started the music player when they > need to bring up the window again (perhaps to change a song). Clicking on > the Noise icon on the dock would take them back to the other workspace, > when all they wanted to do was to quickly select a song and get back to > their work. Hiding and un-hiding the window could make the window show on > the current workspace. > > Of course this behaviour could be implemented for all apps while sticking > to minimize by changing the dock's behaviour as Daniel had suggested some > time back, but this would not integrate well with other DEs. This also > raises the general design question: Should applications intended to be run > mostly in the background (think torrent clients, instant messaging) be > bound to a particular workspace? > > Just my two cents. > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Cody Garver <c...@elementaryos.org> > wrote: > > After using it a while, I decided I don't like this behavior. > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Nishant Agrwal < > nishantagrwal12...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was reading this page of the HIG: >> >> http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines/user-workflow/background-tasks >> >> I couldn't help noticing that the page specifically mentions the expected >> behaviour from a music player, yet Noise minimizing instead of hiding the >> window completely. Just thought I'd point it out. Thoughts? >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Cody Garver > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Cody Garver
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