On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, at 15:58, Sam Bull wrote: > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 09:42 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 14:31 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, at 13:44, 0x90 wrote: > > > > See this thread: > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/53d5kz/need_dev_info_abou > > > > t_ > > > > legacy_traytopicons_plus_in/ > > > > To achieve this goal, all apps need to be redesigned. > > > After reading the thread I still don't know what the replacement > > > is. > > > Just remove the tray icon? And run in the background without > > > illustrating that to the user? > > I don't know - this seems reasonable to me. If an application has a > > service component... just provide the service. As a user why do I > > care? There is no need for me to see something unless something > > happens. > > Also, for email, the accounts can be setup in the control panel as an > online account. If an account is setup through there, then it would > certainly be nice to have GOA or something trigger notifications for > these accounts if an app is not open. > > This would be similar to what the Ubuntu phone does with UOA, though > this is more born out of the lifecycle requirement, that apps aren't > allowed to run in the background.
While it makes sense for some applications, like email, it's rather confusing for something like an IRC client: I don't want it to run at start up, but I also want to be able to let it run in the background without a window. Without the tray I have NO idea if my IRC client is currently running (without using `ps aux` or something like that). Note that I'm not alone with this: Google has required that apps which want to run in the background to have a presistant notification so that the user knows about it: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/29/android-engineer-explains-why-some-apps-suddenly-have-persistent-notifications-after-you-upgrade-to-android-4-3/ Also the tray icon also shows other stuff: For Dropbox / Seafile it shows when it's currently syncing data by spinning arrows. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
