On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:50:42AM +0000, Jeffery Small wrote:
[...] I'm very sorry to hear this -- especially given that there is a non-functioning option for this on the Preferences menu. I sure wish developers of these tools were more supportive of user preferences and implemented GUI changes as options rather than forcing these things upon everyone. Given the Preference menu entry, maybe that is some indication that this feature could be restored. Is anyone on the development team listing here?
No, don't misunderstand. The indicator change was a downstream decision within Ubuntu to remove the notification area and replace it with indicators instead. I'm actually quite satisfied with how it turned out, as there is now a unified area for media players to reside in. The Sound Menu functions over MPRIS2, which is a standard for controlling media players over D-Bus. Any MPRIS2-supporting player will turn up in the Sound Menu, including Totem, Rhythmbox, and gnome-mplayer. (Sorry, I don't know what the XFCE alternatives are). The Sound Menu extension in Banshee just tells Banshee not to shut down if its window is closed and the sound menu is present. The Notification Area extension in Banshee adds a notification area icon if the notification area exists, and tells Banshee not to shut down if its window is closed and the notification area icon is still present. This doesn't work in Unity or XFCE today because there is no longer a notification area (I think). The Indicator Applet extension does the same thing as the above, but without the hover functionality, and in the indicator applet instead. This was a fairly crappy solution which I was annoyed about, before we moved to the Sound Menu. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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