[Straw-devel] Re: proposed tray changes

[Jan Alonzo]

Juri Pakaste <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 22:23 +1000, Jan Alonzo wrote:

<snip>

(This is related to bug #152753[1] btw)

> Please reconsider. I don't think minimize to tray is a conceptually
> sound idea.
>
> Straw uses the notification area thingy for notification, not to tell
> the user that Straw is running. This is a good thing, that's what the
> notification area is for. The primary action - and left click is the
> primary way to interact with things on your screen - of the notification
> area icon should be something that has something to do with the
> notification. Minimizing the window has nothing to do with the reason
> for the notification. It's a completely different function, and because
> the notification area icon isn't visible all the time, the user can't
> consistently use the notification area icon for minimizing the window.
> Indeed, it seems likely that the user would most like to use it for
> minimizing when there's nothing to read in the Straw window. In that
> situation, the icon is not available.

Thanks for the insight. I totally forgot about the notification discussion
before. The reason why I brought this up is because I don't know what to do
with bug #152753. There's a patch that fades the straw icon when there are no
items to read, and hides/unhides on left click. The patch looks alright
(eye-candy wise), but I agree that the notification applet should only be used
for notifications.

Personally, I agree with Juri. So if there are no strong opinions against the
default behaviour, then I might close the bug as 'WONTFIX'.

Cheers,



[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152753

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Jan Alonzo                          <address@hidden>

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